Prostitution and disease is a reality that must be stressed to teens. The story follows a 15-year-old girl named Dawn Wetherby (Eve Plumb) who runs away from home to Hollywood, California and … Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway is a dramatic made-for-television movie, which premiered on NBC on September 27, 1976. Eventually Alex and Dawn reconcile with each other, and they develop more and more feelings for each other as the days go by, culminating in them finally being in a relationship with each other. The movie is lower quality, due to the age. It premiered on September 27, 1976.
Alex invites her to stay at his apartment, telling her she doesn't have to do anything in return, he just genuinely wants to help her. She can act, and she has sex-appeal. Swan tells Dawn that she must move in with him like his other girls, and he wants her there the next day. Was this review helpful? 93 minutes. Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway is an NBC made-for-television movie. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. Young girl runs away from her abusive family only to end up in a juvenile detention center for girls where she's raped and brutalized by her sadistic peers. Shipping is free for buyers in the U.S.Orders in the U.S. arrive 4-5 business days af Umber also helps Alex by getting him a job as a stock boy in a big department store so he can get out of that lifestyle himself. Fortunately, the outcome of this made for tv movie is a positive one. 2 out of 5 found this helpful. Only one honest social worker shows interest in helping her. that no longer exists, the 70's fashions, the Runaways song "Cherry Bomb," etc.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful. Pimps hang out in bus stations and airports, to catch these young girls, and lure them into prostitution.
Alex gives her the $30 that he was going to use for his rent, but they end up getting into an argument over Alex's hypocrisy since he's a male prostitute himself. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. He will eventually return to his wife, chastened. Prostitution and disease is a reality that must be stressed to teens. Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV Movie 1976) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. If you believe this movie, you should never leave home, do whatever your parents tell you, don't be a fool, stay in school, and just say no to drugs and everything else.....
Eve Plumb in an effort to get away from her image of Jan Brady, middle sister with Marcia issues, on the Brady Bunch took a part as far as you can get from the G-rated Brady family. In its day, this was a bigger ratings winner than Linda Blair's "Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic" which started fresh a timeworn cycle: the teens-in-trouble genre. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age.
A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids. A few seconds later in the vestibule of the store, lights reflect off of the windows and when Frankie Lee goes to the trick's car it's dark. Dawn believes that Alex works at a liquor store, but one night she follows him and discovers he's a street hustler; despite her discovery, she doesn't bring it up and they never talk about it, continuing the ruse that Alex works in a liquor store. Fortunately, the outcome of this made for tv movie is a positive one. This far better then the sequel which was more of soap. Beat the literal heat with three films that capture the spirit of summer love.Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The movie is maudlin, chauvinist, and downright silly. Please contact me with any questions - hungup84@yahoo.comHI! As powerful today, as it was 30 years ago. Alex confesses that he loves Dawn, and they consummate their relationship. He tells Dawn that if she tells him their night together meant nothing to her, then he'll leave for good. Young girls who, run away from home, don't see danger. Great stuff! "Dawn" leaves one with the false message that everything always turns out OK in the end, when this is rarely the case.
It premiered on September 27, 1976. Unfortunately, a psychopath is roaming the highways, picking up young girls and raping them. Her first professional john is a hotel pickup at the lobby, but the man beat her and didn't pay either, resulting in her phoning Alex to ask him for money. His arm is in a sling recovering, and he promises her that he'll go down to get her when he's saved enough money. Despite Alex getting beaten up, it's still not enough for Dawn to leave Swan or give up prostitution, or to even go home to her mom. I saw this when it first aired as a tv movie, and have also seen it on tape.
But still quite viewable.The dvd will come in a paper dvd sleeve, with cover art insert. At the clinic, a young man notices Dawn and introduces himself as Alexander. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. and the presence of a Brady Buncher playing a prostitute. Parts are very compelling as you watch this young runaway evolve into a streetwalker.
Dawn finds herself taken under the wing of a tough-talking pimp named Swan. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to ... Dawn finds herself taken under the wing of a tough-talking pimp named Swan.
15 year old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. Alex grabs Dawn and the two of them makes a breakaway from Swan.
The story follows a 15-year-old girl named Dawn Wetherby who runs away from home to Hollywood, California and becomes a prostitute to support herself.Dawn finds herself taken under the wing of a tough-talking pimp named Swan. Was this review helpful? We do not offer to watch Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway movie online. Incidentally, I seem to recall a Disney movie entitled 'Blind Sunday' circa 1976, which featured Leigh McCloskey. It does show however, that those teens who wish to 'make it big in hollywood' does no necessarily end up that way. Was this review helpful?