Children Are Too Young to Die
- Marc Cerutti
- 20m
- January 1, 1990 · United States of America
Overview
The film graphically calls attention to the brutal dangers of playing on top of elevators in public housing high-rise 30-story buildings in New York City. The slang is called ""elevator surfing"", ""elevator action"" or ""elevator chicken"" and it is a deadly game in which groups of children ride up and down the elevator shafts on top of a moving elevator car and jump from one moving car to the top of another. At times, a child waits in the pit of the elevator shaft. When a car pauses on the lowest floor, he grabs the electrical cable and rides upward. ""Children Are Too Young To Die"" begins with a bloody reenactment of an elevator accident in which a 10-year-old boy gets his arm cut off by the counterweight in an elevator shaft. The story unfolds and reveals real issues and deaths resulting from such dangerous activities.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1990
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Cerutti Productions
- Director
- Marc Cerutti
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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