Red Hook Summer (5.4)

Movie · 2012 · 2 h 05 min · Drama

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Starring Clarke Peters, Nate Parker, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Toni Lysaith, Jules Brown, Heather Simms, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, De'Adre Aziza, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Colman Domingo

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