Title: American Ghetto
Description: Described as a young, urban “The Sopranos”-meets-”Boys In The Hood,” this film version of a true story details the 16 months author M. Rutledge McCall spent living in the largest, most violent ghetto in America. During his time in South Central,  Compton and Watts, gang members were sending bullet riddled corpses to county morgues at the rate of one nearly every 11 hours. After spending months in those violent neighborhoods on a regular basis, gang members developed sufficient trust in him that they allowed him to be involved in every aspect of their lives. To go where they went, to see what they saw, to do what they did. To move among them as no white outsider had ever been allowed.

This is the screen adaptation book format of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the author's screenplay for the book :Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story from the American Ghetto", which was optioned for film by David Sacks, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of PayPal and Producer of the hit film “Thank You For Smoking”.
Places: Los Angeles, Southern California
People: Gangs, sociology, culture, history, Los Angeles, Rutledge McCall
Time periods: 1991-1992