Crooklyn

Name: Crooklyn
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: May 13, 1994
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo

1994

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 13, 1994 | PG-13

Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo

Summary: Make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they've affectionately nicknamed "Crooklyn". A loving, but fiercely independent mother along with her musician husband (Delroy Lindo) struggles to raise her family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances.Make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they've affectionately nicknamed "Crooklyn". A loving, but fiercely independent mother along with her musician husband (Delroy Lindo) struggles to raise her family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances. [Universal Studios]
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Director: Spike Lee

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 115 min

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Michael Wilmington

It's a movie that's so personal, naked and vulnerable that you can understand why some of its humor seems rough, some of its visuals excessive. But Crooklyn has a quality not as obvious in any Lee film since "Do the Right Thing": the sense of a whole world opening, rich and real, before your eyes. [13 May 1994, p.A]

Peter Travers

This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Crooklyn comes to the screen with an upbeat tone and a lot of heart. Beneath the surface of this deceptively simple motion picture lurks a keen insight. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Both annoying and vibrant, casually plotted and deeply personal, Spike Lee’s Crooklyn ends up being as compelling as it is messy. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Messy as the semiautobiographical Crooklyn often is, it succeeds in becoming a touching and generous family portrait, a film that exposes welcome new aspects of this director's talent. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

With characters this alive, it's a pity that no one was able to build a more convincing film around them, instead of leaving everyone more or less out there on their own. [13 May 1994, p.1]

Richard Schickel

Our natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. Read full review

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HankChinaski

Sep 26, 2011

Touching at times, yes, funny, even more so, but ultimately boring, and when not boring, annoying. Actually the superb child actors and the great 70s soundtrack are the only things that make it worthwhile.
Rather go for Do The Right Thing.

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