A boy from Atlanta lands in Brooklyn to spend the summer with his grandfather, who he's never seen before.

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he's never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he's bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch's operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people's conflicting agendas collide.

U.S.A., 2011, 135 mins, color,

Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriters: James McBride, Spike Lee

Cast:
Clarke Peters, Jules Brown, Toni Lysaith, Nate Parker, James Ransone, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Samantha Ivers, Limary Agosto, Heather Simms, Colman Domingo, Daniel Breaker, Kalon Jackson and Spike Lee (Mookie).

PRODUCERS
Spike Lee, James McBride

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Kerwin Devonish

EDITOR
Hye Mee Na

PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Sarah Frank

COMPOSER
Bruce Hornsby

SOUND
Phil Stockton

PRODUCTION
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks


2012 | Sundance FilmFest
* World Premiere
http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/120133/red_hook_summer