Street Smart (1987)

Actors

• Walter Allen Bennet Jr. (actor)
• Victor Bowen (actor)
• Danny Brainin (actor)
• Ian Braton (actor)
• Leslie Carlson (actor)
• Dorian Joe Clark (actor)
• Ernest Deveaux (actor)
• Morgan Freeman (actor)
• David Glen (actor)
• Francisco Gonzáles (actor)
• Andre Gregory (actor)
• Terry Haig (actor)
• Eddie Earl Hatch (actor)
• Erik King (actor)
• Rick Aviles (actor)

Genres

• Crime
• Drama
• Thriller

Taglines:

Everything you say can and will be held against you.
To get even he must get STREET SMART
Never let the truth ruin a good story.

Quotes:

Ted Avery: Jonathan, you don't work for the defense and you don't work for the prosecution. You work for this magazine and we... [he gets interrupted by the magazine's lawyer]

Jonathan Fisher: What was the weirdest thing a guy asked you to do?::Punchy: Talk!

[repeated lines]::Jonathan Fisher: This is Jonathan Fisher, Channel 3, Street Smart!

Jonathan Fisher: Are you Fast Black?::Fast Black: To some. My momma always called me Leo. Leo Smalls Jr.

Fast Black: [to his partner who was running away from him] Reggie, are you crazy? What the hell you... [Reggie fires the gun]

Ted Avery: [laughing and reading Jonathan's article about the pimp] It's wonderful! Listen. Listen to this! "Although he doesn't vote and never has Tyrone has no modesty about his own political potential. If I was the president, he says, I could fix the world in 30 seconds. I sent everybody pussy and they don't have no time for trouble." It's terrific. It's first rate. It's a real breakthrough! Let it change pussy for something else.

Davies, Joel Filmography

• Friends and Benefits
  2011, role: actor , character name: Dave

Davies, Joel Filmography

• Drown
  2013, role: actor , character name: Fingers

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