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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 23, 1999
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee & Zelda Harris | |
Performer: | David Patrick Kelly, Joie Lee, José Zúñiga, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Bokeem Woodbine, Pee Wee Love, Dan Grimaldi, Rene Ojeda & RuPaul | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenplay by | Spike Lee, Joie Lee & Cinqué Lee | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Story by | Joie Lee | |
Produced by | Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Jafa |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lee is a great self-promoter. After all his press releases and all his interviews, we are given films that are sketchy, unfelt and distancing -- incidents in Lee's career, the only drama that really interests him.
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TIME Magazine
Lee seems to confuse noise with drama: the bickering Carmichaels create quite a racket, but we're seldom moved by their plight. In his most desperate moment, Lee shoots a long sequence through a distorted lens.
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Newsweek
This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time.
Rolling Stone
...Refreshing....Woodard is luminous as always....Also a pleasure is young Zelda Harris...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Nuanced depiction of a black family in Brooklyn; language.
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Common Sense Media
Crooklyn, a gentle and touching tale of growing up in a melting-pot neighborhood of Brooklyn in the Partridge Family era, shows a different, more sentimental side of that cinematic firebrand, Spike Lee.
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Hartford Courant
...Lee's choice of actors is a complete success. The children seem like siblings, and interact in a natural, habituated way...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
With CROOKLYN, Spike Lee revisits through the eyes of a young girl the Brooklyn of his youth, resulting in an innocent, touching comedy about one summer in the life of a large family. The only sister in a family full of boys, Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) has to be strong, smart and quick with her fists if necessary. Although they argue more than they talk, the Carmichaels draw from a deep well of love for one another. Over the course of the summer, Troy weathers her parents' separation and reconciliation (characters played with deep sincerity by Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo), takes a wild visit to her cousin's in Virginia, and must learn to cope with personal tragedy when it strikes. Lee co-scripted the film with siblings Joie and Cinque--who claim that it isn't strictly autobiographical--yet CROOKLYN rings true with a nostalgia and detail that makes it feel like a home movie. Flexing his technical skills, Lee shot all of the Virginia scenes with a distorted lens to reflect Troy's confusion with her new surroundings. Featuring an onslaught of 1970s pop culture references and a seemingly endless pop music soundtrack, CROOKLYN yet remains a universal viewing experience.