Street Smart

Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The story of the high-living pimp is too close a resemblance to real-life flesh pedlar Fast Black (Morgan Freeman), and Jonathan is jailed when he refuses to turn ...more

The annoying, artificial theatricality of star Christopher Reeve, his stage roots clearly showing through a cinematic performance, is sufficiently counterbalanced by a tight script and two powerhouse acting turns from Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker. Based on a script from David Freeman, who knowingly mines his days as a New York magazine writer, this is a sharply observed treatise on the dark sides of journalism, the law, and street life. In fact, all three endeavors are clearly and cleverly ...more