Synopsis
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
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Cast
- Melissa LeoCookie
- Dale MidkiffDuke
- LeonJason
- Antonio FargasFinesse
- Julie NewmarQueen Bee
- Randall BatinkoffTim
- Annie GoldenPhoebe
- Deborah OffnerHeather
- Khandi AlexanderStar
- Julie CohenTricia
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
Director Joan Freeman, who cowrote the screenplay with her husband, Robert Alden, shows a remarkable talent for capturing the sights and sounds of this seamy world. Freeman works a gritty realism into the formula story, creating an always-fascinating tale from an ugly subject. - 70
The New York Times
Streetwalkin' isn't exactly full of surprises. But it certainly moves. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Make no mistake about it: Streetwalkin’ (a very hard R) is first and foremost a blood bath. - 20
Time Out
Starting off as lurid, documentary-style melodrama before it settles into an over-extended and often risible cat-and-mouse chase, this witless pile of prurient sleaze is poorly paced and saddled with a predictable script, stereotype characterisations, and distastefully voyeuristic direction.
