One Year in a Life of Crime
Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.
- Year: 1989
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: new jersey, cocaine, domestic abuse, shoplifting, spouse abuse, shoplifter, uneducated, newark, new jersey
- Director: Jon Alpert
- Cast: Jon Alpert, Robert Steffey, Freddie Rodriguez