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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: SPIKE LEE: "Crooklyn" (1994)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, childhood grief, dysfunctional families, parental anger, drugs, poverty, grief, loss.
After another Spike masterpiece (one we’ve both seen already), Spike geared up for one of his most personal projects to date. Written as a TV pilot by Spike’s sister Joie and brother Cinqué, Spike reigns everything back in to show a family, both good and bad, living in Brooklyn in 1973. It moves more like a series of scenes than an actual movie, but the characters here are among...