Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
Writer/Director: Spike Lee
Writers: Joie Lee (story & screenplay), Cinqué Lee.
Stars: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109504/
Not sure why the family is shown smiling on the poster, nor why the synopsis writer chose "vibrant", unless they meant noisy and combative. 4 boys and a girl, and she gives as good as she gets, which is pretty bad. I almost turned the film off halfway through because of the yelling, the stealing from each other and local shops, the disagreements within the family and with neighbors.
And then comes the big event which turns everything on its ear, and makes the film worthwhile.
Universal & more, dir. Lee; 7-
