Crooklyn | | Cast : | Delroy Lindo, Alfre Woodard | | Director : | | | Studio : | Mca Home Video | | Format : | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC | | Released Date : | May 13, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | February 23, 1999 | | Language : | English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | September 27, 2005 | | Summary | My Favorite Movies Of All Time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Content
 | This is a great movie to watch and it's also one of my favorite movies. Highly Recommended |
| Rating | | | Date | August 17, 2005 | | Summary | A Family Favorite | Content
| This movie is a cult favorite in my family. I've never lived in NYC, but really enjoy the way this movie makes me feel. It reminds me of the 70's and growing up in a "family". Nobody's perfect, and lord knows we fight, but at the end of the day we all love one another. I believe this to be the best Spike Lee movie and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good movie on a Saturday afternoon. You will probably cry, though. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 12, 2005 | | Summary | pleasant quasi-bio of growing up in Brooklyn... | Content
| Delroy Lindo puts in another great performance, the cast is generally very good and here Spike Lee finally gets off the soapbox for a change. It's just straight bio of sorts, a simple story about a simple family going through some hard times, populated by many memorable characters. Very high reality quotient, nice blast from the past i.e. the Suckin' Seventies. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 28, 2004 | | Summary | Quit Hatin! | Content
| I saw this movie for the first time 10 years ago with my family and fell in love with it. I was however like 9 so I decided to watch it again to see if I still liked it and I must say that this is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It reminds me so much of my own personal life it was scary. All these people who didnt like the movie are too focused on the unimportant facts of a movie and not looking at the movie itself. It has alot of truths in it and I think it is well worth th time and money to explore it and figure out where it parallels your life. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 24, 2004 | | Summary | This film's a mess, but still enjoyable. | Content
| I think Spike Lee was trying to make an African American version of the wonderful book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" -- but all of the Gershwin-esque music and fabulous camerawork can't hide a story severely lacking in purpose and that wastes too much time on irrelevancies. When it suddenly turns to serious drama, the performances warrant it but the tone and direction of the film do not. The most glaring shortcoming of the film is the attempt to pull of the various "characters" of the neighborhood -- with very little to no success. It's a shame because this was one of the great things in "Do The Right Thing." Still, he has such fabulous style and such an ear for dialogue that this film is a rich pleasure to watch. If it weren't for Lee's masterful talents this film would be quite poor -- maybe even a one-star review. That's quite a complement to him I think. |
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