King (Where the Day Takes You)

King is the name of the main protagonist in the 1992 film Where the Day Takes You.
He is portrayed by Dermot Mulroney.
King is a young man living on the streets of Los Angeles for nearly 7 years, he was a teenage runaway who originally is from Chicago. King is now 20 or 21 years old. It is indicated that King's parents were not really great, a father who was a junkie. He has a sister who also left home and not sure where she is at. His real name is not known but he goes by King. King is a leader of a group of teenage runaways who are his friends like Little J, who is a hustler, Greg, who is a junkie, Brenda, a heavyset girl. He is also friends with Crasher, and Manny, a legless man in a wheelchair living on the streets. He has a girlfriend named Devon. 
King was in the county jail for 3 months for assault, possession, and loitering. Some bum tried to assault King and King hit him with a bottle, the bum got three stitches and King got 3 months King does get out of jail and has to participate in a mandatory program where he has to do interviews with a parole officer and does get $10 for each session. After he gets out of jail, he hooks up with his friends Little J., and Greg at a concert, Later on he, Little J., Greg, Crasher, and Brenda are at a burger joint. He would there meet another runaway named Heather, who like King is also from Chicago. She joins up with them. King learns from Crasher that Devon was hanging out with Tommy Ray, a pimp who has his own place in Los Angeles. King is not pleased to learn that Crasher failed to look out for everyone while he was in jail. 
King, Little J., Greg and Crasher would pay Tommy Ray a visit and Tommy Ray Tells King that he had to let her go cause she was stealing from him and King does not believe that Devon is a thief. It is indicated that Tommy Ray killed Devon. 
King starts to become closer with Heather. King would have Heather help him get even with Tommy Ray at the bus station. Tommy Ray would retaliate by going to the freeway underpass where King and his friends would sleep at and tried to kill King. Little J., who got a gun from a car he and Greg broke into shoots Tommy Ray, killing him, saving King's life. King and Heather would leave the hangout temporarily till things cooled down. The two detectives Black and Landers arrest Crasher just to get information on where King is. 
King tries to convince Heather to go back to Chicago, she won't go without him. King and Heather are at the beach begging for money. Heather tells King that she has made some money and rent a hotel room. King would learn why Heather ran away from home that she was sexually abused by her brother. Heather reveals to King that the money she earned was actually money she had when she left Chicago. Crasher is released by the cops and meets up with King and Heather and tells them that he is leaving to go to Dallas, Texas.
King and Heather find Little J at their hangout and tell them that they will leave town and start over. Greg, who is at his drug dealer Ted's apartment getting high gets a visit from King and tells Greg that they are leaving L.A. and wants Greg to go with them. Greg later on gets busted by Detective Black and tells them what King is planning on doing and is released. 
King, along with Heather and Little J are at the bus station waiting for the bus and Greg. King does not know that Greg is at Ted's apartment and has died of an overdose of heroin. The bus has arrived and King, Heather and Little J get on the bus and could not wait any longer for Greg. On the bus waiting, King goes back to the inside of the bus station to look for Greg, Detectives Black and Landers show up and Little J pulls out the gun at them and King tries to stop Little J from using the gun and is shot by the cops while trying to protect Little J. 
Heather has an talk with the interviewer who interviewed King and watched a video taped session of King. Heather, Little J and Brenda walk away from the police station.
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