Movie Description:
This is the true story of twoyoung boys from Chicago`s deprived southside who take up a local radio challenge to make a documentary about their everydaylives. The controversial program is riddled with horror stories of drug dealing, gang warfare, drive-by killingsand broken homes. For some listeners,Lloyd Newman and LeAlan Jones` fly-on- the-wall portrait of ghetto life seems to be too negative; Too concentrating on the bad aspects of life in theirdepressed neighborhood. But with the encouragement of enterprising young radio producer Dave Isay, they prove their critics wrong and go on to win acoveted Peabody Award for covering a shocking story that thenational press wanted to ignore.
