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Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 10, 2012

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Red Hook Summer

Production Companies

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Director

Spike Lee

Revenue

$336,855

Description

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.