Red Hook Summer

Plot

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. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.

Cast

Clarke Peters

Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse

Nate Parker

Box

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Deacon Zee

Toni Lysaith

Chazz Morningstar

Jules Brown

Flik Royale

Heather Simms

Sister Sharon Morningstar

Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Hazel

De'Adre Aziza

Colleen Royale

Kimberly Hébert Gregory

Sister Sweet

Colman Domingo

Blessing Rowe

Spike Lee

Mr. Mookie

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Detective Flood

Al Palagonia

Detective Haggerty

Limary Agosto

Lourdes

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Deacon Yancy