Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)

Directed by

Randal Kleiser

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 15-year-old girl runs away from home and ends up in Hollywood where she struggles to survive. She gets involved with a pimp and prostitution.

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What happens

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway is a 1976 American made-for-television drama film which premiered on NBC on September 27, 1976. The story follows a 15-year-old girl named Dawn Wetherby (Eve Plumb) who runs away from home to Hollywood, California and becomes a prostitute to support herself. Dawn finds herself taken under the wing of a tough-talking pimp named Swan (Bo Hopkins). The film's soundtrack features the song "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways. A sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977), focuses on Dawn's friend and fellow runaway, Alexander Duvall (Leigh McCloskey). Plumb reprised her role as Dawn for the sequel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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