Crown Heights Page #4

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


ALL TYPES. TRUST ME.

OKAY, OKAY, LOOK,

ENOUGH TALK.

WE'RE DOING THE DANCE NOW.

OKAY, WHATEVER.

I'LL TURN THE BASS UP.

[ HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING ]

ALL RIGHT?

Both:
5, 6, 7...

OKAY, CHAIM, HERE'S YOUR MUSIC.

THANK YOU FOR COMING, SIR.

ED.

PAUL.

YOU KNOW WHAT?

I WANT TO TRY THIS.

LET'S GIVE IT A TRY.

READY?

1, 2,

1, 2, 3, 4.

YA'A-SEH SHALOM

YA'A-SEH SHALOM

OH, YEAH, YEAH.

YOU SOUND LIKE A CANTOR.

YOU BETTER WATCH IT, MAN.

NO, NO, I'M KIDDING.

YOU WERE TERRIFIC. IT'S GREAT.

I HAVE A LITTLE:

CHANGE OF HEART, THOUGH.

I WANT TO HEAR:

"INCREASE THE PEACE."

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GO TO THIS TAPE, OKAY?

HERE WE GO.

SO WHAT WE GOTTA DO,

INCREASE THE PEACE

HOW WE GONNA DO IT?

DECREASE THE HEAT

WHAT YOU WANNA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

GOTTA SHOUT IT OUT

WHAT WE GOTTA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

HOW WE GONNA DO IT?

DECREASE THE HEAT

HEY, THAT'S COOL.

THAT'S COOL.

OH, NO, GITTEL,

GITTEL, NOT NOW.

GIRLS, I'M STILL REHEARSING.

IT'S NOT READY YET.

I'LL CALL YOU

WHEN IT'S READY.

IT'S THE WIFE AND KIDS.

YOU KNOW WHAT?

LET'S GO

WITH "INCREASE THE PEACE."

IT WORKS, HMM?

THIS INTERRACIAL

COMMUNITY EFFORT

IS CALLED:

PROJECT C.U.R.E.

Both:
C.U.R.E. STANDS

FOR COMMUNICATION,

UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT,

AND EDUCATION.

WHAT'S UP, Y'ALL?

THIS IS DR. LAZ

REPRESENTING PROJECT C.U.R.E.

NUMBER 613 COMING OUT

OF CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN.

WE'RE ALL HERE FOR ONE REASON,

TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY

COME ON, COME ON.

WHAT'S UP WITH THE LOVE

IN OUR COMMUNITY?

WE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY

TO LIVE FREE:

BUT STILL WE FIGHT

IN CROWN HEIGHTS, '91,

STILL DREAD THAT NIGHT

WE COME FROM DIFFERENT RACES,

DIFFERENT FACES:

FARAWAY PLACES,

JEWISH, BLACK

HAITIAN, PUERTO RICAN

WE ALL LIVE TOGETHER, SO PEACE

IS WHAT WE'RE PREACHIN'

COMMUNITY, UNITY,

LET'S GET THE JOB DONE

WE ALL LIVE TOGETHER,

SO LET'S STAND AS ONE

YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER

'CAUSE WE ALL WANT PEACE

IGNORANCE AND VIOLENCE,

IT ALL MUST CEASE

RESPECT ANOTHER MAN'S BELIEFS

AND HIS RELIGION

IT'S LOVE THAT I'M GIVIN',

COME ON:

SO WHAT WE GOTTA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

HOW WE GONNA DO IT?

DECREASE THE HEAT

WHAT YOU WANNA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

GOTTA SHOUT IT OUT

WHAT WE GOTTA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

HOW WE GONNA DO IT?

DECREASE THE HEAT

WHAT YOU WANNA DO?

INCREASE THE PEACE

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

GOTTA SHOUT IT OUT

Laz:
COME ON, CHAIM,

PLAY IT IN THERE.

[ PLAYING CLARINET SOLO ]

THAT IS ONE.

HERE WE GO.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

LISTEN,

THEY LAUGHING AT US.

SO WHAT?

ARE YOU QUITTING?

I DIDN'T COME OUT HERE

TO BE MADE NO FOOL.

ONLY JERKS ARE LAUGHING.

THOSE JERKS:

ARE MY FRIENDS.

WELL, EVERYONE ELSE

LIKES US, OKAY?

THEY CAME HERE:

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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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