Street Smart deals with the corruption of an average man, with how a basically honest person succumbs to the pressure of today's life. Since Watergate, its seems that more and more honest people in America find it acceptable to be dishonest. This film is about a journalist who allows himself to be corrupted in the process of trying to further his career. This terrible thing is that corruption is rampant in both Government and the private sector, and a great deal of it goes undetected and unchallenged. That is not to say it has not always existed, it has. In this film, one form of corruption leads to another, and another... Jerry Schatzberg