I'm so used to Morgan Freeman being the good guy in movies that I was blown away by him being the degenerate New York pimp. And he played it too well.
"Street Smart" is about a reporter for the New Yorker named Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) who wrote a fictitious magazine article about a pimp named Tyrone. It was just a means for him to get into his editor's good graces, but who knew that it would be understood as an article about a real pimp named Leo "Fast Black" Smalls (Morgan Freeman)?
Why did it matter that people believed the article was about a real pimp? Because the DA believed that Jonathan was glamorizing a known pimp and suspected murderer. Soon Jonathan found himself entangled in a messy web of a pimp, a hooker named Punchy (Kathy Baker), his ticked off girlfriend, a hungry DA, a gushing editor, and an unyielding judge. It was all the drama you could want and need.
"Street Smart" is about a reporter for the New Yorker named Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) who wrote a fictitious magazine article about a pimp named Tyrone. It was just a means for him to get into his editor's good graces, but who knew that it would be understood as an article about a real pimp named Leo "Fast Black" Smalls (Morgan Freeman)?
Why did it matter that people believed the article was about a real pimp? Because the DA believed that Jonathan was glamorizing a known pimp and suspected murderer. Soon Jonathan found himself entangled in a messy web of a pimp, a hooker named Punchy (Kathy Baker), his ticked off girlfriend, a hungry DA, a gushing editor, and an unyielding judge. It was all the drama you could want and need.