The Best Hotel on Skid Row
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America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a prostitute and heroin addict named Becky, a drug dealer and traveler names John, and an heavy drinking alcoholic named Jack Woodrow Wilson.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1990-03-25
Runtime: 48 mins
Director: Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Peña
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: The Best Hotel on Skid Row
Production Companies: America Undercover, HBO Documentary Films
Production Countries: United States of America
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