High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)

Directed by

Jon Alpert

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows several residents of a struggling Massachusetts town as they battle severe crack addiction. It shows their daily lives, their efforts to get clean, and the harsh realities of poverty and drug abuse.

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What happens

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Richard Farrell, Maryann DeLeo and Jon Alpert. It was a co-production of HBO and DCTV, produced by Farrell, DeLeo, and Alpert. It aired on HBO as part of its series America Undercover. The documentary takes place about 20 miles northwest of Boston in the economically depressed former mill city of Lowell, Massachusetts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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