From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Crooklyn is of 1 hour(s) and 55 minute(s). It is Produced By: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures, Child Hood Productions. It was released on 1994-05-13. It has the tagline: A new look at the old neighborhood. It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
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