Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels (2017)
Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels.
84 min
Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels. These small spaces are home for many at the bottom of Chicago's housing ladder. Cloaked in darkness and secrecy, these hotels are often maligned as drug dens and havens for prostitution but the people who live, work and own these hotels have never fully shared their stories. Caged Men is a feature-length documentary which examines the disquieting stories of near-homeless Americans living on the margins and their invisibility in a largely indifferent and, at times, hostile community. It attempts to lend a voice to SRO residents, clerks, owners and to the hotels themselves.
- Release date
- December 30, 2017
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Tyrone Boulware as Self
- Tyrone Boulware as Resident Ewing Annex
- Larry Moody as Self
- Jay Bomberg as Self
- Roark Moody as Self
- Roark Moody as Clerk New Jackson Hotel
- Wayne Cohen as Self
- Wayne Cohen as Owner Ewing Annex
- Darryl Schlin as Self
- Darryl Schlin as Owner New Jackson Hotel
- Kevin Traynor as Self
- Kevin Traynor as Clerk Hotel Tokyo
- Charles Hoch as Self
- Charles Hoch as Prof Sociology
- Mike Bush as Self
- Mike Bush as Clerk Ewing Annex
Crew
- Aaron Shipp · Director
- Deb Eschweiler · Producer
- Aaron Shipp · Cinematographer
- Deb Eschweiler · Editor