The Price of Love (1995 film)

The Price of Love is a 1995 American made-for-television drama film written by Ronald Parker and directed by David Burton Morris.

All Brett really wants though is a normal stable life, and in order to obtain that, he feels like he must turn himself over to child services and become a ward of the state.

[4] The Baltimore Sun came down on the film for being "maddeningly irresponsible" in the way it ignores AIDS, but otherwise praised David Gerber and David Burton Morris for going the "extra mile in terms of script and photography", and also noted that "Bret's journey into the empty, urban, neon nightmare of teen prostitution in Hollywood is compelling".

[5] The Deseret News said the movie takes a rather "unflinching look at the horrors of this life" of living on the streets with the "violence, the disease, the trouble with the law".

[3] John Voorhees of The Seattle Times wrote "Ronald Parker's script doesn't glamorize life on the streets, yet treats the prostitution angle with sensitivity, while director David Morris gets affecting performances from an uniformly good cast.