This dramatic feature, focusing on the lives of young adults living in a racially mixed housing project in Boston, offers an unsentimental view of working-class life in America. The second film in a trilogy by Jan Egleson (the first being the Emmy Award-winning Billy in the Lowlands), The Dark End of the Street features actors recruited from the Group School, a Cambridge alternative school for working-class youths, and was shot on location in the streets, factories and housing projects of its setting. The story involves a young white woman, Donna (Laura Harrington), who is pressured to withhold evidence regarding the death of a black friend in an incident which only she and her boyfriend have witnessed. Racial tensions erupting from the police investigation mar previous friendships. While its subjects are obviously the racism, sexism and economic inequalities that form the perimeters of Donna's life, the film keeps its focus modest, viewing these issues from her point of view as she negotiates her way from teenager to adulthood. The film was featured at Los Angeles' Filmex in 1981, when Buck Henry wrote, “It is the work of amateurs in the best sense of the word.... Their language and behavior are totally, poignantly real.... Jan Egleson's film suggests that, among other things, he is one of the finest acting teachers in the country.”