Crooklyn (1994)

Directors

Spike Lee

Cast

Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris

The story

In 1973, 9-year-old Troy Carmichael and her brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, and Joseph live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with their parents Woody, a struggling musician, and Carolyn, a schoolteacher. The neighborhood is filled with colorful people, such as Tony Eyes, the Carmichaels' next-door neighbor, whose house emits the foul smell of dog feces; Tommy La-La, who continuously sings; and Snuffy and Right Hand Man, glue sniffers; and war veteran Vic Powell, who rents from the Carmichaels and lives upstairs. One day, the Carmichael children get into an argument with Tony after he sees Wendell throwing trash into his…

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