Red Hook Summer
Beneath every scene, powerful music enhances the film's resonance in much the same way its hyper-saturated colors do visually.
Red Hook Summer
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn anthology - which also includes "She's Gotta Have It" (1986), "Do The Right Thing" (1989), "Crooklyn" (1994), "Clockers" (1995), and "He Got Game" (1998) - RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale (Jules Brown), a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters of The Wire), in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, things quickly get off on the wrong foot as Bishop Enoch relentlessly attempts to convert Flik into a follower of Jesus Christ. Between his grandfather's constant preaching and the culture shock of inner-city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster - until he meets Chazz Morningstar (Toni Lysaith), a pretty girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter side of Brooklyn. Through her love and the love of his grandfather, Flik begins to realize that the world is a lot bigger, and perhaps a lot better, than he'd ever imagined.
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
121
Language
English
Director
Spike Lee
Cast
Jules Brown
FEATURED REVIEW
Ray Greene, Boxoffice Magazine
Thank God for Spike Lee—that human blowtorch, the filmmaker made of acetylene. In what's shaping up to be a tepid Sundance, he showed up to remind everyone what a true independent vision is: a crime of passion, a fist to the face, too much, too loud, too uncontrolled to be contained.As usual, Spike ...
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