Red Hook Summer (2012) on Netflix
Flik Royale, thirteen, is sent from Atlanta to spend the summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse, the grandfather he has never met. Chazz Morningstar becomes his friend.
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- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb5.3/102,087 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes57%
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Plot summary
Flik Royale is thirteen and has grown up comfortably in Atlanta. His mother sends him to spend the summer in the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn with Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse, the grandfather he has never met, a strict preacher who wants the boy to accept Jesus Christ. Flik, bored and without friends there, argues with Enoch about religion and technology and spends much of the summer on his iPad and on Skype calls to his mother. He develops a friendship with Chazz Morningstar, a girl from the church, and crosses paths with Box, a gangster who once belonged to Enoch's congregation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red Hook Summer (2012)
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- Spike Lee shot Red Hook Summer on location within a 10-block radius over 18 days, filmed as three six-day weeks "under the radar," and financed it out of his own pocket, having just bought a new camera.
- Red Hook Summer marked the first time Spike Lee had appeared in one of his own films since Summer of Sam in 1999.
- The film's "Lil' Peace of Heaven Baptist Church of Red Hook" is really the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, 609 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, which was founded in the kitchen of co-producer and co-screenwriter James McBride's parents and where McBride grew up.
- None of the children in Red Hook Summer had been in a movie before: Spike Lee did not want professional child actors, scouted his own old junior high school for them, and kept that school's drama teacher on set to keep the students focused.
