Public Housing Plot Summary and Details

Plot

For this 1997 chronicle of people living in poverty at Chicago's Ida B. Wells public-housing development, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman attempted to record all aspects of daily life at the housing development -- drug counselors, street life, addiction, unemployment, drug education, guidance counselors, job training programs, tense relationships between residents and police, the elderly, dysfunctional families, the tenant's council, nursery school, after-school teen programs, and the activities of city, state, and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing.

MPAA Rating:

Not Yet Rated

Genre(s):

Documentary,Special Interest

Run Time:

200min.

Theatrical Release Date:

02/17/1998

Director(s):

Frederick Wiseman

Themes:

Down on Their Luck,Inner City Blues