Crooklyn

May. 13,1994      PG-13
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Alfre Woodard as  Carolyn Carmichael
Delroy Lindo as  Woody Carmichael
David Patrick Kelly as  Tony Eyes / Jim
Zelda Harris as  Troy 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
Spike Lee as  Snuffy

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