Production
The film's non-Hollywood realism can be explained by its origins. First came "Streetwise," a series of documentary photographs of Seattle street kids, for Life magazine, by Mary Ellen Mark. Next Mark and her husband, Martin Bell, produced a documentary film called "Streetwise." The screenplay for "American Heart," the fictionalized dramatization, was based on this material.
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“... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but it can not do without that life.”
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