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Taylor's Campaign

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Producer(s)Amy Kofman, Richard Cohen
Director(s)Richard Cohen
Release Date1998
Runtime75 min
Format(s)video
Language(s)English
Youth Mediano

Film Description

An intensely gripping, surprisingly humorous and insightful look at hardworking people living in cardboard lean-tos in Santa Monica, California, dumpster diving for survival. When new laws jeopardize their civil rights, a destitute ex-truck driver named Ron Taylor runs for Santa Monica city council. His candidacy becomes a quest for tolerance.

Taylor's Campaign tells the story of one community's treatment of people who are homeless, yet "the film is a mirror of what is happening around the country" (Street Sheet, San Francisco). The issues of human dignity, civil rights, hunger, substance abuse, treatment by the criminal justice system, hope vs. hopelessness are universal and poignantly conveyed.

Narrated by Martin Sheen

Official Sitewww.richardcohenfilms.com
Contactrbc24@earthlink.net

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Related IssuesCriminal Justice, Economic Justice, Elderly, Health Reform, Housing and Homelessness, Labor, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities, Poverty, Welfare