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Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

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Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

The Startling NBC-TV Drama That Shocked the Nation

4.9

1h 40m

1976

“The Startling NBC-TV Drama That Shocked the Nation”

Synopsis

15-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. She meets Alexander, a young male hustler who takes her in, but when she starts working for a pimp, Alexander becomes a target.

Director

Randal Kleiser

DramaTV Movie

pimphustlerteenage prostituterunaway childalcoholic mothersex with a minor

Cast & Crew

Eve Plumb

Eve Plumb

as Dawn Wetherby

Leigh McCloskey

Leigh McCloskey

as Alexander Duncan

Lynn Carlin

Lynn Carlin

as Dawn's Mother

William Schallert

William Schallert

as Harry

Anne Seymour

Anne Seymour

as Counterwoman

Joan Prather

Joan Prather

as Susie

Marguerite DeLain

as Frankie Lee

Bo Hopkins

Bo Hopkins

as Swan

Georg Stanford Brown

Georg Stanford Brown

as Donald Umber

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