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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 7522
Released: February 23, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THE WIFE AND CHILDREN OF A JOBLESS JAZZ MUSICIAN DEAL WITHEVERYDAY LIFE IN 1970'S BROOKLYN.
Description of Crooklyn:
Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences (mom and dad are played by Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard), and who navigates the life of her neighborhood. Lee tosses in a lot of '70s detail (watching The Partridge Family) and other diversions (Harris's journey through suburbia), but he has no master sensibility controlling the flow of it all. The film is more wearying than anything, although bright spots include Lindo's fine performance as a talented man suffering from irrelevance. --Tom Keogh
Crooklyn Reviews:
Super fast delivery of a funny movie 
2009-06-08 - Had seen this movie a while back and am now happy to own a copy of my own! And at such a great price too!
Super fast shipping from this great seller!!!!!
DVD
2009-05-27 - Very pleased with order. Wasnt expecting what I got at all. It said like new so I was expecting it to have been opened once atleast but I received it still in the plastic :-). Very pleased watched as soon as i got it
wonderful
2008-12-10 - i think the movie was great i love this movie so much i just brought it again because i lost my other copy but anyway i love the movie its is off the chain
A tree grows in Crooklyn
2008-08-04 - Ahhh who can forget the good Ol' days of Spike Lee films that had heart as well as insight? Who can forget this gem?
Crooklyn is loosely based on Spike Lee's life growing up. Its mostly a story that mostly details the struggles of a family growing up in Brooklyn as seen through the eyes of Troy(played by Zelda Harris). There are beautiful performances to be seen here. Alfre Woodard's presense is felt as the stern but loving mother of four kids and Delroy Lindo's is great as the father who is also dealing with pressure as a struggling musician and trying to pay the rent on time. They go through the normal strife that any black family has to go through in poor areas but they still find a way to maintain. I remember as a kid that the last scene with the mom passing on had me choked up. Troy and her brother holding hands at the reception for the funeral was a touching scene too. They drove each other crazy but it was still love in the end. Crooklyn has brief moments of awareness like one scene in particular: Troy's aunt comparing troy's hair to her adopted child's hair saying that the adopted child's hair was good hairnad that Troy's hair was rough was a sublte form of self-hatred but most people wouldnt pick up on that. Of course Spike Lee has to make an appearance in the movie. He plays a junkie who chases kids around trying to steal money from them. In short Crooklyn stands out as one the best dramas of all time and one of Spike Lee's best work. The characters are ones that you care about, their struggles are real and anybody who has been there can also relate. Two thumbs up for Spike Lee's work of art on film.
Spike Lee With Heart!
2008-04-17 - This is a wonderful movie. My favorite from Spike Lee. It tells an autobiographical story about a mother dying from cancer and its effect on the youngest girl in the house. It uses a lot of fun techniques to create a nostalgic mood for the 1970s and offers differences between urban and suburban African-American lifestyles in a hilarious comparison. The movie has quite a bit of love in it and that carries the story above and beyond the usual family history movie. The girl's impression of the local drug addicts are hilarious. They are seen as crazies who are harmless but still scary to young children. The father is a jazz musician who makes a varied amount of money that the family can't depend on so the mother's loss is felt even more acutely.
