After forcing her to go in a visit to spend the summer holiday with her aunt, Troy Carmichael, a young teenager girl, struggles after her coming back with the illness of her father, the thing that challenges her, as for the first time, she bears such a heavy responsibility and the feel of loss, the thing that affects badly on her.
It's the first Spike Lee film with the potential to be turned into a television show. More important, it's the first one to display real warmth of heart.
EmanuelLevy.Com
June 06, 2006
Loosely based on Spike Lee's growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, the casual, warm, apolitical (for Lee) script took a life of its own during the development process.
While Lee fails to impose sufficient structure on his material, expertly drawn performances help vividly to evoke the family and street life of an era untroubled by crack or drive-by shootings.
Crooklyn is not in any way an angry film. But thinking about the difference between its world and ours can make you angry, and I think that was one of Lee's purposes here.
A sub-par vision of Brooklyn with some bright spots
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time.
ReelViews
January 01, 2000
Lee is as talented as any director is capturing an era, and some of the early scenes perfectly recall the mood of the time. The pop soundtrack may be a little too obvious, but it gets the job done.
Lee is a great self-promoter. After all his press releases and all his interviews, we are given films that are sketchy, unfelt and distancing -- incidents in Lee's career, the only drama that really interests him.
