Synopsis
Street Smart (1987) is a crime thriller directed by Jerry Schatzberg you can watch online on iFILM. New York journalist Jonathan Fisher — Christopher Reeve — is about to lose his job. He saves it by filing a story about a pimp he largely invented. The problem: his fictional character matches a real pimp named Fast Black, currently under investigation for murder.
The police want sources Fisher doesn't have. Fast Black wants to know how much the reporter actually knows — and he is not the kind of man who asks twice. Morgan Freeman's Fast Black is the film's centre of gravity: cold, precise, and genuinely frightening, he took an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and leaves Reeve a passenger in their shared scenes. It is one of Freeman's finest early performances, made before the dramatic roles that defined his later career.
Tagline says it plain: "Never let the truth ruin a good story." Stream Street Smart on iFILM.
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