American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

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American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
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Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Written by	Julia Cameron (treatment) Mardik Martin (treatment)
Produced by	Bert Lovitt
Starring	Steven Prince Martin Scorsese George Memmoli
Cinematography	Michael Chapman
Edited by	Amy Jones Bert Lovitt
Distributed by	New Empire Films
Release date	October 1978 (October 1978)
Running time	55 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$155,000[1]

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978

who tells stories about various events in his life.

The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured in the film.

A sequel, American Prince, was released in 2009 and was directed by Tommy Pallotta.

Synopsis

Martin Scorsese and a small group of friends gather in a living room in Los Angeles with the charismatic Steven Prince. Over the course of the evening, Scorsese films Prince talking about various events in his life with a mixture of humor and gravitas. Prince recalls stories such as being a former

, and a traumatic event in which he witnessed a boy die by accidental electrocution. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family.

When talking of his years as a heroin addict, he recalls Neil Diamond offering to help Prince get clean, but he refused. Later, however, Prince goes through recovery and remembers being shocked to learn he had a green ceiling in his home. He never noticed before because his eyelids had always been half-closed as an effect of the heroin.

Prince recalls injecting

.

Prince also tells a story about his days working at a gas station, and having to shoot a man he caught stealing tires, after the man pulled out a knife and tried to attack him. This story was retold in the Richard Linklater film Waking Life.

Cast

• Steven Prince as self
• Julia Cameron as self (uncredited)
• Mardik Martin as self (uncredited)
• Kathi McGinnis as self (uncredited)
• George Memmoli as self (uncredited)
• Martin Scorsese as self (uncredited)

References

External links

• American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince at
  IMDb
• American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince at AllMovie