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The Writing on the Wall

7.0(1)198628m1

"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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  • TMDB

    7.0/10

    1 votes

Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • hip-hop
  • ghetto
  • graffiti
  • vandalism
  • subculture
  • urban decay
  • 1980s
  • rap
  • newark, new jersey

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TV11 Dec 1986

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The Writing on the Wall was released on 11 December 1986.

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