Movie
Crooklyn
Overview
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Details
- Release date
- 1994-05-13
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures, Child Hood Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Alfre Woodard as Carolyn Carmichael
- Delroy Lindo as Woody Carmichael
- David Patrick Kelly as Tony Eyes / Jim
- Zelda Harris as Troy Carmichael
- Carlton Williams as Clinton Carmichael
- Sharif Rashed as Wendell Carmichael
- Tse-Mach Washington as Joseph Carmichael
- Christopher Knowings as Nate Carmichael
- José Zúñiga as Tommy La La
- Isaiah Washington as Vic Powell
- Ivelka Reyes as Jessica
- Spike Lee as Snuffy
Crew
- Spike Lee - Director
- Cinqué Lee - Screenplay
- Joie Lee - Screenplay
- Spike Lee - Screenplay
- Joie Lee - Story
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