Children Are Too Young to Die (1990)

The film graphically calls attention to the brutal dangers of playing on top of elevators in public housing highrise 30story buildings in New York City The slang is called elevator surfing elevator action or elevator chicken and it is a deadly game in which groups of children ride up and down the elevator shafts on top of a moving elevator car and jump from one moving car to the top of another At times a child waits in the pit of the elevator shaft When a car pauses on the lowest floor he grabs the electrical cable and rides upward Children Are Too Young To Die begins with a bloody reenactment of an elevator accident in which a 10yearold boy gets his arm cut off by the counterweight in an elevator shaft The story unfolds and reveals real issues and deaths resulting from such dangerous activities