One Year in a Life of Crime

Dec 1, 1989

0h 55m

★ 6.8

Overview

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.

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Jon Alpert

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Robert Steffey

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Freddie Rodriguez

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