Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

slightlymad22 Having finished my look book at the career of Tom Cruise to date, I have decided to do Will Smith next, as I owned most of them anyway, but have not seen a movie of his (except Suicide Squad) since the awful After Earth. Where The Day Takes You (1991)Plot In A Paragraph: A group of teenage runaways try to survive on the streets of L.AWhat a cast, what performances, what a great little movie. How had I never heard of this?? If anything it suffers from his famous most of its cast became through various TV and film roles. Dermot Mulroney is the main actor here as The King, a sort of leader of the runaways. Sean Astin (in what I now consider his best performance) and Beltzhar Getty are his closest allies, as for Will Smith, he portrays Manny, a legless cripple, who is on the fringes of being in with The King. Riki Lake, Lara Flynn Boyle, Robert Knepper, Adam Baldwin, Alyssa Milano, David Arquette, Kyle MacLachlan and James Le Gros all have roles of varying importance to the plot, but all are fantastic. Considering the cocky, outgoing public persona Smith was portraying in public at the time, and the light comedic tone of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, this was certainly an interesting first movie for Smith.Despite only a $3 million budget, Where The Day Takes You was a commercial flop, grossing only $390,000 at the domestic box office.

Johnny Utah Saw this movie when it first came out and loved it ever since. I don't know anything about how realistic it might be cause I've got no experience with living on the street like the kids in the movie do, but I can relate to kings effort in trying to hold the gang together even though it put a strain on him. It is also the only drama movie I have seen where the music score fits perfect with the mood of the film. I dunno if Melissa Ethridge wrote the score particularly for this movie or if they just picked it out of tunes all ready existing, but they did a perfect job. I also like how king say it's not hard nor easy it just IS Its and excellent movie it's dark and gritty yet good. I really wish there wore interviews available of the cast it would be interesting to hear how they feel about it, and how they had approached the different roles. I deserves and Oscar but since it only has a B cast and don't have the right connections it will never happen. It's the only movie where I can stand Will Smith in. The cast is fantastic their performance is great and to me they look believable. I would highly recommend it to everyone. I simply can't say enough good things about this movie

thablaza-1 I just got this movie on DVD and me and my brother laughed, cheered the group led by King, and felt sad all at the same time. Everyone was great in their portrayal of homeless and down -on-thier - luck types. Dermot Mulroney and Balthazar Getty should have got nominations for portraying King and Little J respectively. Will Smith and Peter Dobson were comic relief. However all the while the grittiness of living on the streets was reflected. A great movie is anything that could touch you in every way possible and this film does it!!! The entire cast was good. Seeing Christina Slater as a interviewer at the rehab clinic was ironic. Sean Astin showed the chops of a great actor he shows now. Alyssa Milano is visually arresting in her bit part as Kimmy. Rachel Ticotin was gorgeous as usual as the female cop. The ending was devastating more for the fact that it provided another turning point in the film.

Derek Williams "Where The Day Takes You" is about the homeless youth who come from all over the country to escape their dysfunctional families to live on the streets of Hollywood.It is here that this youth form surrogate families with other homeless youth.This film chronicles one such family of homeless youth headed by King who is the father figure.A violent confrontation with another homeless leader turns for the worse and King finds himself desperately trying to keep his family together while avoiding the law.The movie is surprisingly honest about dangers of living on the street and yet portrays the real sense of community that this homeless youth shares with each other.My only issue with this film was perhaps the Melissa Etheridge music which distracted me.It got more tolerable with repeated viewings of this film but to be fair I am not much of a Melissa Etheridge fan.If you like movies about Hollywood or films featuring young attractive actors playing disaffected youth then I would suggest this film.