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Red Hook Summer - Overview

Genre:   Comedy, Drama  
Opened: Aug 10, 2012     Run Time: 2hrs 1min  
Cast: Clarke Peters   Nate Parker  Thomas Jefferson Byrd   Heather Alicia Simms        
Director: Spike Lee   
Producer: Spike Lee      
     
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Synopsis
Red Hook Summer: Flik Royale is a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, the two get off on the wrong foot as Bishop Enoch relentlessly attempts to convert Flik into a follower of Jesus Christ. Between his grandfather's constant preaching and the culture shock of inner-city life, Flik's summer appears to be a tot... Read More
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5.7 star rating 5.7 on
Rotten Tomatoes 58%  on  Rotten Tomatoes
Flixter 45%  on  Flixter
Box Office Data
# Weeks 6
# Total Gross $0.3M
Additional Content for Red Hook Summer
Red Hook Summer
Domestic Theatrical Distributor: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Domestic Theatrical Distributor: Variance Films
Production Company: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
8 star rating 8
Spike Lee's latest is his most challenging and unsettling work to date. The small amount of marketing support behind this film presented it as a cross between C...
4 star rating 4
A misguided film from Spike Lee, the first film of his that I didn't like, it does have one good thing, and thats the lead performance of clarke peters as the b...
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