American Heart

American Heart is a 1993 film by Martin Bell, starring Edward Furlong and Jeff Bridges. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in a number of categories, and won in the Best Male Lead category. American Heart tells the story of a recently released convict (Jeff Bridges) pursued by his 12-year-old son (Edward Furlong), who hungers for a father and insists on joining him on Seattle's skid row. The film's non-Hollywood realism can be explained by its origins. First came "Streetwise," a series of documentary photographs of Seattle street kids, for Life magazine, by Mary Ellen Mark. Next Mark and her husband, Martin Bell, produced a documentary film called "Streetwise." The screenplay for "American Heart," the fictionalized...