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Red Hook Summer
Directed by
Spike Lee
R
2012
2h 5m
Drama
5.3
57%
34%
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A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Cast of Red Hook Summer
Clarke Peters
Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse
Nate Parker
Box
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Deacon Zee
Toni Lysaith
Chazz Morningstar
Jules Brown
Flik Royale
Heather Simms
Sister Sharon Morningstar
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Hazel
De'Adre Aziza
Colleen Royale
Kimberly Hebert Gregory
Sister Sweet
Colman Domingo
Blessing Rowe
Spike Lee
Mr. Mookie
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Detective Flood
Al Palagonia
Detective Haggerty
Limary Agosto
Lourdes
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Deacon Yancy
Daniel Breaker
Cliff
Turron Kofi Alleyne
Butter
Tracy Camilla Johns
Mother Darling
James Ransone
Kevin
Sumayya Ali
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Jon Batiste
Da Organist Tk Hazelton
Charles Anthony Bryant
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Janinah Burnett
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Courtney D. Carey
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Jim Davis
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Director
Shani Foster
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Arthur French
Mr. Curtis
Louanne Harris
Donna / Kayak Instructor
Samantha Ivers
Patty Simmons
Kalon Jackson
Husband / Father
Kevin D. Johnson
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Jackson Lee
Kayak Kid
Brian K. Major
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Lillie Marshall
Miss Marshall
Sakura Myers
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Sincere Peters
Blessing Rowe - 12 Yrs Old
Mari-Yan L. Pringle
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Gregory A. Robinson
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Moriah Scott
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Charlotte Small
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Nesean Smith
Lil' Budda
Tyheim Smith
Kayak Kid
Briana Swann
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Fred Tolliver Jr.
Born Knowledge
Brandon Waddles
Lil' Peace Of Heaven Baptist Church Of Red Hook Choir Member
Red Hook Summer Reviews
Detroit News
Adam Graham
When Spike Lee fails he fails big, and he goes down in flames with "Red Hook Summer."
The Atlantic
Robert Levin
This is an illustrated lecture - a jumbled, rushed cinematic rant. The ideas are there. The story is not.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Lee's latest film feels like several intriguing ideas in search of an over-arching story.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is Lee at his most spontaneous and sincere, but he could have used another screenplay draft, and perhaps a few more transitional scenes.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
This coming-of-age portrait provides one more instance of Lee as one of this country's finest cinematic regionalists.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It's a scramble, marked by the unruly variety of visual strategies Lee prefers.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The story is static for about 90 minutes, then rises to action, but in a way that seems impromptu, either made up on the spot or ill-considered.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
For the most part it's all rather pleasant, if somewhat aimless.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
In truth, the film fizzles as much as it fumes. There is a kind of lassitude that sets in, even as it builds toward some kind of reckoning.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
From a storytelling perspective, Red Hook Summer is an absolute mess.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Spike Lee now seems to be trying to be the world's oldest student filmmaker. Take out the rookie mistakes from "Red Hook Summer," and there'd be nothing left.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
There's little drama or sense of progression in the movie until the bombshell hits, and then it just whimpers along for another half-hour until the end.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
It comes off embarrassingly amateurish at times, but other times the sentimental moments will captivate you, but only for a moment.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Features Lee playing with fascinating concepts and working well with setting even if the final result isn't quite the sum of its parts.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
The direction is aimless at best and changes tones with the weather.
Deadspin
Tim Grierson
"Red Hook Summer" has so much life, so much verve. Spike Lee always makes movies you want to wrestle with, even if the rewards this time around aren't as worthwhile.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
Lee's typically paradoxical statements on race and religion muddle the narrative, and his old stylistic tricks -- saturated color schemes, characters addressing the camera -- aren't exactly inspired.
Slate
Dana Stevens
A movie that's alive and spontaneous and surprising is a rare enough thing to encounter-especially one that manages to address subjects as divisive and painful as inner-city black poverty without getting maudlin or preachy.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Peters brings a magical energy to the movie's most laggard moments, infusing a so-what drama with a must-see performance.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Lee grapples with a number of urgent themes, but his approaches are often either too direct (we are repeatedly pummeled by the bishop's fiery preaching) or too circuitous (the verbal and visual meanderings are sometimes valuable, and sometimes not).
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