The Children of Times Square (1986)

Directed by

Curtis Hanson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lonely teenage boy runs away from his home and ends up in New York City. He gets involved with a drug dealer who uses homeless kids to sell cocaine.

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What happens

The Children of Times Square is a 1986 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Curtis Hanson. The film is about an alienated teenager who runs away from home and travels to New York City where he falls in with a cocaine dealer using street children as drug dealers. It aired on ABC on March 3, 1986. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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