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Skid Row Tuesdays
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Skid Row Tuesdays

2014 · 51 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Every Tuesday, Stephaune Wallace drives into Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and sets up an operation that feeds and clothes hundreds of homeless people living on those streets. Director Bobby DeMuro follows him through a single day of that routine, from loading supplies to handing out hot meals and clothing block by block, letting the camera stay close on the exchanges between Wallace and the people he knows by name. There is no narrator building a case or a string of statistics about homelessness in Los Angeles; the film sticks to what one person does with his time and how the people on Skid Row respond to him. Wallace's energy carries most of the film, and the repetition of it, week after week, is the point rather than any single dramatic moment. It is a short, plain record of a recurring act of aid in one of the country's largest concentrations of unhoused people, focused on the mechanics of getting food and clothes into hands rather than on argument or advocacy.