

The Writing on the Wall
"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'
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7.0/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- hip-hop
- ghetto
- graffiti
- vandalism
- subculture
- urban decay
- 1980s
- rap
- newark, new jersey
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TV11 Dec 1986
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The Writing on the Wall was released on 11 December 1986.
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