One Year in a Life of Crime

Director	J. Alpert; Maryann DeLeo; Janet Storti; video;
Synopsis	This gritty documentary unflinchingly depicts the lives of the down and out. The camera follows Robert, Mike, and Freddy, three professional criminals from Newark, NJ, for twelve months. It records their shoplifting excursions to the suburbs, the gloom and cruelty of their domestic lives, and their tangles with the law. While the program illustrates the daily and nightly struggles of individual criminals, it does not take a narrow view of their predicament. Its painful portraits of wasted lives prompts views to consider he broad social causes which underlie criminality and reassess the remedies in which our society places its faith.
Full Story	Following the lives of three lawbreakers over one year as they pursue their criminal lifestyle.
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Clipland