Straight Out of Brooklyn

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Summary: Ghetto Oscars
Review: Forget ALL ghetto movies made to date... there is sooo much love in this one you will be shocked! This one is my life time favorite movie... NEVER you could feal the passion and the sweat of a filmmaker... wow!

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Summary: Hard Times in a housing project
Review: Initially, I watched this movie aired on a PBS special. Recently, I ran across a copy and bought it. This movie, deep down inside, is about three youths who are struggling with day in and day out in a Brooklyn housing project, Red Hook. One of the youths, Dennis, has a deeper desire, almost desperate, to find a way out of the poverty trap. He comes up with a plan: rob a drug dealer.

The movie unfolds with Dennis' family living in poverty, his father is a drunk, the mother is struggling from one poor paying job to the next trying to help support the family. It is about difficult times. Dennis has dreams: college and to become someone.

I found this movie quite powerful because of the emotional context of each character. Each actor did a superb acting job. I wish the ending piece would have brought Dennis back to the neighborhood to either confront the odds or look for an escape out. But, in all honesty, this is a movie to watch.

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Summary: life in the projects ain't no game, kid
Review: This is the movie that started it all for me. As a suburban white kid in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, I could still relate to these characters and this setting. From the opening moments of a busted up appartment (at the hands of 'Ray', the drunk-up pops) I was 'hooked on Redhook'. I have now seen it 13 times--more than any other movie. Matty Rich directed, wrote--done everything in this movie!
But you know? The show belongs to Dennis (Larry Gillard, Jr.) and Ray (George T. Odom--watch for him as the bartender in "The Hurricane"). When Ray's talkin' to the mirror... i'm feelin it.
I liked this movie so much, me and my boy was gonna do a remake of it, but it never happened... maybe one day...
Highlights of the movie include the scene where Dennis and Ray chat about life, forgotten dreams, and gettin OUT... also watch for the love scene with Sherley (which is sure to steam up your goggles) and the dance sequence where Dennis shows his moves with those crazy nut-caeshe friends of his.
You can't step to this movie. Now turn the lights down low, the volume full blast, and hit that owl like it was a party horn.

Rating:
Summary: life in the projects ain't no game, kid
Review: This is the movie that started it all for me. As a suburban white kid in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, I could still relate to these characters and this setting. From the opening moments of a busted up appartment (at the hands of 'Ray', the drunk-up pops) I was 'hooked on Redhook'. I have now seen it 13 times--more than any other movie. Matty Rich directed, wrote--done everything in this movie!
But you know? The show belongs to Dennis (Larry Gillard, Jr.) and Ray (George T. Odom--watch for him as the bartender in "The Hurricane"). When Ray's talkin' to the mirror... i'm feelin it.
I liked this movie so much, me and my boy was gonna do a remake of it, but it never happened... maybe one day...
Highlights of the movie include the scene where Dennis and Ray chat about life, forgotten dreams, and gettin OUT... also watch for the love scene with Sherley (which is sure to steam up your goggles) and the dance sequence where Dennis shows his moves with those crazy nut-caeshe friends of his.
You can't step to this movie. Now turn the lights down low, the volume full blast, and hit that owl like it was a party horn.