Flik travels with his mother from Atlanta to Brooklyn to spend the
summer with his grandfather. Flik wants to go home to Atlanta as soon as he arrives at his
grandfather’s apartment. He
resigns himself to not being able to eat the food he likes, working for his
grandfather for the summer and not having any of the kind of summer he
wants. He meets Chazz, a spunky
girl with asthma and that starts to change his ideas.
This film seems to portray a real slice of life in the Brooklyn projects
but without enough focus on the majority of the people and too much focus on a
few. The reasons for Flik going to
Brooklyn are not given, a big problem arises but the solutions and actions
taken don’t seem to be based on reality?
3* (This movie is OK)
121 min, Drama directed by Spike Lee with Jules Brown,
Clarke Peters, Toni Lysaith, De’Adre Aziza, Nate Parker, Heather Alicia Simms, Thomas Jefferson Byrd.
Note:
Blockbuster 2 ½*, imdb 4.8 out of 10, 58% critic 36% audience on Rotten
Tomatoes.
Special Note:
The Red Hook community was founded years ago to support the docks and
shipyards. It’s a poor
neighborhood with 80 percent unemployment.
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