Crooklyn

Crooklyn is a 1994 semiautobiographical film cowritten and directed by Spike Lee. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York and the neighborhood of BedfordStuyvesant during the summer of 1973. Its primary focus is a young girl, Troy played by Zelda Harris, and her family. Throughout the film, Troy learns life lessons through her four rowdy brothers, her loving but strict mother Alfre Woodard, and her naive, struggling father Delroy Lindo.

In 1973, nineyearold Troy Carmichael Zelda Harris and her brothers Clinton Carlton Williams, Wendell Sharif Rashed, Nate Chris Knowings, and Joseph TseMach Washington live in the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The children live with their parents, Woody Delroy Lindo, a struggling musician, and Carolyn Alfre Woodard, a schoolteacher.The neighborhood is filled with colorful characters. The Carmichaels nextdoor neighbor, Tony Eyes David Patrick Kelly continuously sings. Snuffy Spike Lee and Right Hand Man N. Jeremi Duru are glue sniffers. Vic Powell Isaiah Washington is a war vet who lives upstairs from the Carmichaels. ........

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