Sidewalk Stories (1989)

Directors

Charles Lane

Cast

Charles Lane, Tom Alpern, Darnell Williams

The story

An impecunious and homeless young black sidewalk artist in the Manhattan slums finds himself in charge of a three-year-old girl who has been orphaned. Though with severely limited prospects for being able to care for the precious and vulnerable child, the artist manages through pluck and luck to protect, shelter and feed her through a series of adverse events and adventures during which he displays a striking ingenuity and himself attracts a lover. The bond between him and the child grows in the course of these events until the artist sees a picture of the child on a milk carton in an ad by the child's widowed mother, to whom he returns…

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