Crown Heights Page #3

Synopsis: After the Crown Heights riots, an orthodox Rabbi and a community activist help two youths--one a Hasidic Jew, the other African-American--form a hip-hop group to heal their neighboorhood.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Jeremy Kagan
Production: Showtime Networks Inc.
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
R
Year:
2004
93 min
42 Views


IS YOUR DAD OKAY?

I DON'T WANT

TO TALK ABOUT IT.

LEAVE IT ALONE,

ALL RIGHT?

MY DAD'S GOING THROUGH

A ROUGH TIME, TOO.

WHAT'S UP

WITH YOUR DAD?

I DON'T WANT

TO TALK ABOUT IT.

YOU BROUGHT IT UP.

WE'RE USING FOOD STAMPS.

I THOUGHT Y'ALL

HAD MONEY HIDDEN AWAY.

I THOUGHT:

YOU LIVED ON WATERMELON.

I HATE IT, THOUGH.

I CAN TELL:

IT MAKES HIM FEEL SMALL.

PLENTY OF FOLKS I KNOW

DOING THE SAME THING.

FORGET IT.

I KNOW:

WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

LIFE DOES THAT SH*T,

YOU KNOW?

SOMETIMES IT CAN BEAT YOU DOWN.

KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?

RIGHT.

SO THOSE GUYS --

YOU RAP WITH THEM?

YEAH, FREESTYLING MOSTLY.

MAYBE YOU AND ME

COULD PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.

ME AND YOU?

YEAH.

MAYBE.

[ HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING ]

IF HALF THE MONEY

SPENT ON POLICE OVERTIME

WENT TO YOUTH PROGRAMS,

THE WHOLE THING:

MIGHT NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.

OKAY.

YOU GOT TO HEAR THIS.

JUST LISTEN.

JUST LISTEN.

I WROTE THIS,

AND I WANT TO PLAY IT

AT THE MURAL DEDICATION.

AND THE KIDS:

ARE REALLY INTO THIS.

THEY WANT TO DO:

THE WHOLE HIP-HOP THING.

WELL, HAVE THE COUNCIL

CALL ME BACK, PLEASE.

THANK YOU.

WHAT KIDS? WHAT ARE YOU --

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

SLOW DOWN, MAN.

WHAT, YOU DON'T

LIKE THE SONG?

I DON'T LIKE

RUSHING INTO THINGS.

LAZ, WE'RE GOING

TO DO THIS KIND OF THING,

WE GOT TO DO IT TOGETHER.

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?

YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

YOU KNOW SOME PLAYERS?

THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT.

YOU DON'T LIKE THE IDEA?

WHAT?

THE LYRICS?

YOU DON'T LIKE THE LYRICS?

TALK TO ME.

WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

YOU NEED:

A REAL BASS PLAYER.

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

GOT TO SHOUT IT OUT

YEAH. RIGHT.

YOU KNOW ONE?

YOU'RE LOOKING AT ONE.

GET OUT.

DESTINY.

THE LORD WORKS:

IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

HA HA HA.

YOU'RE TELLING ME.

YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?

YOU SAW THE BOY:

HE BROUGHT HOME?

IS THERE A PROBLEM?

IS THERE?

LAZ HAS IT:

UNDER CONTROL.

I THINK LAZ SHOULD

JUST STAY OUT:

OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS.

RIVKA, I'M PLEASED.

I SEE YUDI CHANGING.

CHANGE?

HELLO, WHAT'S SO GOOD

ABOUT CHANGE?

AY.

Both:
5, 6, 7, 8.

AND 1, 2, 3, AND 4.

5, 6, 7, 8.

1, 2, 3 --

OH, YOU JUST DID

ONE THING OFF.

IT WAS THAT LAST KICK.

DO THE KICK,

AND IT'S...

THEN AFTER DOING THAT ONE,

DO THIS THING,

THEN AROUND,

BOOM, BOOM, RIGHT?

YEAH.

YO, UM, YOU SHOULD COME

TO THIS UNDERGROUND DANCE CLUB

I GO TO.

CHILL WITH ME:

AND HAVE SOME FUN.

NAH, I CAN'T

DO THAT KIND OF STUFF.

WHY?

I'M LUCKY MY PARENTS

ARE LETTING ME DO THIS.

YOU DON'T

TELL THEM, YUDI. DUH.

I DON'T EVEN HAVE

FREE TIME, OKAY?

IF I'M NOT STUDYING

FOR SCHOOL,

THEN I STUDY TORAH.

I THINK YOU MIGHT

WANT TO RECONSIDER.

THEY GOT THESE:

FLY-ASS HONEYS THERE.

GIRLS?

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Michael D'Antonio

Michael D'Antonio is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. His book Mortal Sins was a 2004 Edgar Award nominee.D'Antonio was born May 11, 1955, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977. He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. He was also a contributing editor to Child magazine. more…

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