Crooklyn
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Movie Reviews of Crooklyn
Movie Review: Spike Lee With Heart!
Summary: 5 Stars
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. Movie Review: Lee's trip down memory lane
Summary: 4 Stars
Crookyln involes Spike Lee's trip down memory lane and it's a memorable one. The cinematography and script are all excellent as always and the soundtrack represents the seventies very well. The film's only down point is that it's a bit long but still a great heartwarming film. Movie Review: FAVORITE MOVIE OF LIFE
Summary: 5 Stars
This has been my favorite movie since first seeing it when I was nine! I love it and make any of my friends who hasn't seen it watch it. Such a classic!Movie Review: I dont remember the movie being this boring
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved this movie hen I was younger. Thats why I purchased it. The movie got very boring at times.Movie Review: SPIKE LEE'S CROOKLYN
Summary: 4 Stars
This Spike Lee joint tells the funny, but also sad story about life growing up in Brooklyn in th Early '70's through the eyes of a no-nonsense mother, a struggling-musician father and their 5 children. The music of that time was great and you get to hear some of it throughout the movie like The Stylistics, The Staple Singers & Aretha Franklin just to name a few. Also, clips from nostaglic commercials and TV shows like The Partridge Family and Soul Train (the first season) are also featured in this story that makes this movies worth watching.
And I think the formula used for CROOKLYN may have been some sort of inspiration for the 2002-2005 NBC show AMERICAN DREAMS since they were both produced by Universal Pictures.