Crooklyn
Crooklyn is a vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, Carolyn, her stubborn jazz-musician husband, Wood, and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn. It focuses on one of the kids, Troy, as she learns life lessons through her four rowdy brothers, her loving but strict mother, and her naive, struggling father.
17 November 1960, San Diego, California, USA
22 June 1962, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK
12 April 1950, New York City, New York, USA
13 April 1973, New York City, New York, USA
10 April 1985, Texas, USA
3 August 1963, Houston, Texas, USA
30 September 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 February 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
February 15, 1928 in Portland, Maine, USA
22 February 1949, New York City, New York, USA
1973, New Jersey, USA
1981
November 29, 2007
A sub-par vision of Brooklyn with some bright spots
June 24, 2006
The key problem is that the film is simply a ragged series of anecdotal sketches.
January 01, 2000
Crooklyn is not in any way an angry film. But thinking about the difference between its world and ours can make you angry, and I think that was one of Lee's purposes here.
December 14, 2006
An affectionate look at youthful adventures.
September 23, 2008
While Lee fails to impose sufficient structure on his material, expertly drawn performances help vividly to evoke the family and street life of an era untroubled by crack or drive-by shootings.
September 23, 2008
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.
May 20, 2003
It's the first Spike Lee film with the potential to be turned into a television show. More important, it's the first one to display real warmth of heart.
September 23, 2008
It's not Lee's most challenging work, but it's certainly amongst his most charming.
February 24, 2004
One of Lee's more modest but admirable pieces.
January 01, 2000
Lee is as talented as any director is capturing an era, and some of the early scenes perfectly recall the mood of the time. The pop soundtrack may be a little too obvious, but it gets the job done.
June 06, 2006
Loosely based on Spike Lee's growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, the casual, warm, apolitical (for Lee) script took a life of its own during the development process.
May 12, 2001
This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time.
