Saturday, February 16, 2019

Red Hook Summer (2012), 6- {nm}

R | 2h 1min | Drama | 22 January 2012
A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Co-writer/Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Jules Brown, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Toni Lysaith.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1989593/
Watched on AmazonPrime.

This is Spike Lee 101: slice of life, slice of life, thunderbolt, something to think about. It was an unpleasant trip, but well done. I don't regret seeing it, but won't want to revisit it.

Rated 5.0 (1,438)

distr. BET, dir. Lee; 6-