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Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer is a 2012 American comedy drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars.

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Red Hook Summer

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