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Red Hook Summer

This August Spike Takes You Back To Brooklyn

5.4(28)20122h 5m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$336.9K
Language
English

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Director

Spike Lee

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival22 Jan 2012
    • Theatrical (limited)R17 Aug 2012
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical17 May 2013

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Red Hook Summer was released on 17 August 2012.

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    Dan_Tebasco

    4/21/2017

    6/10

    Starts off pretty good, gets a bit muddy in the middle with only the ocassional spark but in the end picks up again, with a change of tone that was unexpected but made it a bit more interesting. Although in the end not entirely a religious film there is countless of talks of God and Jesus, in fact there are more scenes with references to one of them than there are without them. The music is great but ocassional…

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