Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
The Startling NBC-TV Drama That Shocked the Nation
4.9/ 10
1976
1h 40m
DramaTV Movie
15-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. She meets Alexander, a young male hustler who takes her in, but when she starts working for a pimp, Alexander becomes a target.
Top Cast
Eve Plumb
Dawn Wetherby
Leigh McCloskey
Alexander Duncan
Lynn Carlin
Dawn's Mother
William Schallert
Harry
Anne Seymour
Counterwoman
Joan Prather
Susie
M
Marguerite DeLain
Frankie Lee
Bo Hopkins
Swan
Georg Stanford Brown
Donald Umber
David Knapp
Doctor Roberts
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