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Release Date:
August 10, 2012
Original Title:
Red Hook Summer
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: R
Runtime: 125
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.
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Director:
Spike Lee
Director of Photography:
Kerwin DeVonish
Editor:
Hye Mee Na
Gaffer:
Sidney Brisco
Music Editor:
Marvin R. Morris
Original Music Composer:
Bruce Hornsby
Producer:
Spike Lee
Production Design:
Sarah Frank
Screenplay:
Spike Lee
James McBride
Script Supervisor:
Bruce Thierry Cheung
Songs:
Judith Hill
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