Skid Row R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 25, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Pras Michel | |
Directed by | Marshall Tyler, Ross Clarke & Niva Dorell | |
Composition by | Klaus Badelt | |
Produced by | Teryn Fogel, Pras Michel & Rob Wisdom |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
...Skid Row too often comes to feel like a vanity project, with the focus of the film frequently shifting away from Skid Row's history and people to Pras's sketchy immersion in homelessness...
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Slant Magazine
[Skid Row is] less about finding humanity in the homeless population and more about realizing how a change of circumstance could lead even the most cocooned viewers to find dark inhumanity in themselves.
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Washington Post
[Pras] has done something significant and substantial in terms of awareness of people who, for all their addictions and self-abuse, are still human beings.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 4/4 --
Pras, one of the founding members of the hip-hop group The Fugees, goes undercover to shed light on the plight of the homeless.
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NewsBlaze
Rating: 3/4 --
An eye-opening and necessary look at a large, plain-view problem that most people would simply rather ignore.
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TheMovieReport.com
Product Description:
This hard-hitting documentary goes inside L.A.'s violent Skid Row neighborhood to show the life of the homeless. Using surveillance equipment, Pras Michel (member of the Fugees) documents his experience living as a homeless man for nine days on the streets of Los Angeles.