Streets is an interesting little film. It portrays the lives of teen runaways living on the streets. Ruben shows the lifestyle with neither approval nor disapproval. It contains a good performance from Christina Applegate, the bimbo sex symbol of tv’s Married ... With Children (1987-97), who plays with a convincing hard-bitten realism. Considering the bimbo cult surrounding her, one always wondered if the part of Kelly Bundy was acting for Applegate or not, but this proves she is capable of serious work. Katt Shea Ruben, writing with her then husband Andy, delivers some occasionally snappy dialogue, although the film is not tightly paced enough as a whole. It is serviceable but not that memorable. In the end, despite an assiduous attempt to portray its situation neutrally, it holds an underlying conservative message. The psycho is written in as an adjunct to the mean streets and at the end, for David Mendenhall’s character, home is seen as the traditional place of the heart where everything is safe where the point that should be made for most teenage runaways, the reason they are there is because that is exactly what home is not for them.