Straight Up (1996)
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 13 episodes
- Rating
- 4.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Teenagers in Toronto face harsh real life problems like crime and social struggle. Each episode focuses on different young people whose lives are connected in the city.
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What happens
Straight Up is a Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions. Although critically acclaimed, the show only ran for 13 episodes on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Set in Toronto, the show dealt with the gritty problems of teenagers living in an urban environment. Rather than focusing on a core group of principal characters, each episode would typically feature a different set of the ensemble teenage cast. Initially, although the character relationships were intertwined, each episode would feature a self-contained plot usually involving only a few of the characters. However during the second season, there was a continuing story arc involving a murder over multiple episodes. The series spawned the spin-off series Drop the Beat, which followed the characters of Jeff and Dennis as DJs at a campus radio station. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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