There Are No Children Here

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother, and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.

• Release date
• November 28, 1993
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Anita W. Addison

Cast

Oprah Winfrey LaJoe Rivers Maya Angelou Lelia Mae Keith David John Paul Rivers

M

Mark Lane Lafayette Rivers Norman D. Golden II Pharoah Rivers Vonte Sweet Craig

C

Crystal Laws Green Rochelle