![]() ![]() It portrays the Red Hook Projects, where his co-producer and co-screenwriter, James McBride, grew up. Lee calls the film "another chapter in what I call my chronicles of.the Republic of Brooklyn, New York" ( She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn, Clockers, He Got Game, half of Jungle Fever). In an audio commentary that accompanies the DVD, Here is Lee at his most spontaneous and sincere, but he could have used another screenplay draft." Lee's commentary That's not entirely a bad thing, although some will be thrown off-balance by an abrupt plot development halfway through that appears entirely out of the blue and is so shocking that the movie never really recovers. Roger Ebert gave the film 2½ out of four stars saying it "plays as if the director is making it up as he goes along. Peter Debruge of Variety said "It's fiery, passionate stuff, at times inelegantly presented, but impossible to ignore." The website's critics consensus reads: " Red Hook Summer is just as bold and energetic as Spike Lee's best work, but its story is undermined by a jarring plot twist in the final act." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "average or mixed reviews". On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 58% based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 5.46/10. The film was released on home video on December 21, 2012. The film reached 41 theaters at its peak. Red Hook Summer marked the first time that Lee appeared in one of his films since Summer of Sam (1999).Ī 135-minute version of Red Hook Summer premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival The film was released on August 10, 2012, in select theaters of the New York City area and was released in Los Angeles and other parts of the United States on August 24, 2012. Principal photography lasted three weeks, "on a small budget, guerrilla-style, like Lee's first feature film." Spike Lee appears briefly as Mookie, the main character from his 1989 film Do the Right Thing, wearing his original "Sal's Pizzeria" shirt. ![]() Heather Simms as Sister Sharon Morningstar.Clarke Peters as Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse.The news causes members of his new congregation to turn against him and for Box and his men to beat him up.įlik is sent home to his mother, and says goodbye to Chazz. Enoch admits to the abuse, and says that it was subsequently covered up by his church, which paid the boy's family hush money and let Enoch go free to start a new life in Brooklyn. In the midst of a sermon, a strange man strolls into the back of the church and accuses Bishop Enoch of molesting him 15 years earlier in Georgia. He develops a friendship with a girl named Chazz and encounters Box, a gangster who used to attend Enoch's church. įlik struggles to connect with his religious grandfather, and clashes with him over religion, technology, and other subjects. Flik Royale is a pampered 13-year-old boy from Atlanta who is sent to live with his preacher grandfather, Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. ![]()
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