The Best Hotel On Skid Row - 1990 - 6/10

“Life in here is an ode to the low-income blues.”
Rooms at the Madison are $8.20 a night. No hot plate. Coin-op TV sets.
Or you could crash in the all night movie house for $2.50.
Cheaper? Sleep in the alley.
Profiles of a few tenants. Where they came from, what they left behind, how they live now.
Some are resigned, a few clutch pipedreams. Such is life.
Narrated knowingly by Charles Bukowski.
Ideal double bill for this is It Was A Wonderful Life from 1992.