Crooklyn

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.

Cast

Alfre Woodard

as Carolyn Carmichael

Delroy Lindo

as Woody Carmichael

David Patrick Kelly

as Tony Eyes / Jim

Zelda Harris

as Troy Carmichael

Carlton Williams

as Clinton Carmichael

Sharif Rashed

as Wendell Carmichael

Tse-Mach Washington

as Joseph Carmichael

Christopher Knowings

as Nate Carmichael

José Zúñiga

as Tommy La La

Isaiah Washington

as Vic Powell

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