Crown Heights Page #5

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


TO CHECK US OUT,

AND THEY'RE INTO IT.

DON'T BLOW THIS OFF.

I DON'T KNOW, MAN.

I FEEL EMBARRASSED.

[ SIGHS ]

COME ON.

IT'S ALL THE SAME GAME

CAN WE PULL IT TOGETHER,

FIND A DIFFERENT WAY?

'CAUSE WE WAS ALL SLAVES

BACK IN THE DAY:

WE'RE ALL THE SAME,

TRYIN' TO GET BY

ONE BOROUGH TO SHARE,

WE CAN ALL SURVIVE

WORD:

LA CHAIM:

YOU KNOW WHO I AM,

I KICK RHYMES:

AND I LEARNED THA FROM YOU

SOME OF MY HEROES

ARE BLACK, TOO

SO GIVE ME CREDIT

FOR THAT:

'CAUSE I'M COOL

LIKE THAT:

I'M COOL LIKE THAT

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

AN INTERRACIAL RAP GROUP

MADE ITS DEBUT THIS AFTERNOON

ON THE STREETS:

OF CROWN HEIGHTS,

A COMMUNITY RECENTLY RAVAGED

BY RIOTING.

THE GROUP HELPED DEDICATE

A PEACE MURAL:

THAT WAS CREATED

BY NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS,

BOTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN

AND HASIDIC.

MAN, WE FAMOUS.

WE'RE A REAL GROUP.

YOU GUYS SOUNDED GREAT.

WE'RE GOING

TO NEED MORE SONGS.

I'M WORKING ON IT.

WHY DON'T YOU LET US

HELP WITH THAT?

YEAH, I'M DOWN FOR THAT.

HEY, THAT'S

A GOOD IDEA, MAN.

HE COULD USE ALL THE HELP

THAT WE COULD GIVE.

HEY.

NOW THAT ME AND YUDI

ARE RAP STARS,

WANT TO BE OUR GROUPIES?

H-HINDY AND DEVORAH,

DO YOU MIND TAKING THE GLASSES

INTO THE KITCHEN

FOR ME, PLEASE?

YUDI, MAN,

CURLY IS FINE.

WHY DON'T YOU TRY

TO RAP TO HER?

T.J.

WHAT'S UP WITH YOU, MAN?

WHAT?

LISTEN, T.J.,

YOU CAN'T ACT LIKE THAT

IN A HASIDIC HOME.

LIKE WHAT?

I CAN'T RAP TO DEVORAH.

YOU SHOULDN'T, EITHER.

WAIT, YOU CAN'T FLIRT?

CAN YOU EVEN DATE?

NO.

YO, THAT'S WHACK.

SHUT UP, T.J.

LOOK, I AIN'T TRYING

TO DIS YOU.

I'M JUST SAYING, DON'T YOU EVEN

THINK ABOUT CHICKS?

DON'T YOU WANT

TO HANG OUT WITH THEM?

OF COURSE.

I WOULD GO CRAZY IF I COULDN' TALK TO NO HONEYS.

I KNOW YOU WOULD,

BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

OUR CULTURE, ALL RIGHT?

DO YOU LIKE:

THAT PART OF YOUR CULTURE?

SCREW YOU, SCHMUCK.

LOOK, I AIN'T TRYING

TO DIS YOU.

I'M JUST TRYING TO GET

WHERE YOU COMING FROM, HMM?

IT'S MY LEAST FAVORITE PART.

SATISFIED?

LISTEN, MAN,

I'M GOING TO THIS DANCE CLUB

I TOLD YOU ABOUT.

YOU SHOULD COME,

CHECK IT OUT.

IT'S TIME

TO CELEBRATE, MAN.

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

LET'S DANCE AND SING

COME ON, EVERYBODY,

AND DO YOUR THING

YEAH, MAN.

YOU GOING TO HANG OUT

OR WHAT?

I GOT TO STUDY.

ALL RIGHT, MAN.

TWO FINGERS.

YOU DON'T KNOW

WHAT YOU'RE MISSING, BOY CHICK.

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AMERICA

IS THAT MANY JEWS

ARE ABANDONING THEIR TRADITIONS,

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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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