Red Hook Summer
“This August Spike Takes You Back To Brooklyn”
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.
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Cast
45 people
Clarke Peters
Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse
Known for
The Wire
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Nate Parker
Box
Known for
Non-Stop
The Birth of a Nation
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Deacon Zee
Known for
Ray
Clockers
Toni Lysaith
Chazz Morningstar
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Jules Brown
Flik Royale
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Heather Simms
Sister Sharon Morningstar
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Marvel's Luke Cage
Broken Flowers
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Hazel
Known for
Power
Furious
De'Adre Aziza
Colleen Royale
Known for
Power Book II: Ghost
The Fire Inside
Kimberly Hébert Gregory
Sister Sweet
Known for
Five Feet Apart
Vice Principals
Colman Domingo
Blessing Rowe
Known for
Euphoria
Fear the Walking Dead
Spike Lee
Mr. Mookie
Known for
Do the Right Thing
Malcolm X
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Detective Flood
Known for
The Wire
Your Honor
Spike Lee Director · James McBride Screenplay Bruce Hornsby Composer
Worldwide gross $337K · United States release August 17, 2012 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$336,855
Production
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Production
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 22, 2012
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · August 17, 2012
Limited theatrical
Brazil
May 17, 2013 · Theatrical
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