Red Hook Summer

A slow, sermon-like summer that mixes warmth and boredom before turning toward painful confession and moral reckoning.

Directed by

Spike Lee

Genres

Drama

Starring

Clarke Peters, Nate Parker, Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Tagline

This August Spike Takes You Back To Brooklyn

Overview

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.

How it feels

Earnest, warm, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Faith, family, coming-of-age, guilt

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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