Red Hook Summer
2012, Film, 121 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 60
This August Spike Takes You Back To Brooklyn
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
Directed by Spike Lee
Cast
- Jules Brown as Flik Royale
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd as Deacon Zee
- Toni Lysaith as Chazz Morningstar
- Limary Agosto as Lourdes
- Sumayya Ali as Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
- Turron Kofi Alleyne as Butter
- De'Adre Aziza as Colleen Royale
- Jon Batiste as Da Organist Tk Hazelton
- Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Hazel
- Daniel Breaker as Cliff
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