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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 24, 2004
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Showtime Ent.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mario Van Peebles & Howie Mandel | |
Performer: | Jeremy Blackman & Dequan Henderson | |
Directed by | Jeremy Kagan | |
Edited by | Michael Economou | |
Screenwriting by | Toni Ann Johnson | |
Composition by | Aaron Zigman | |
Story by | Michael D'Antonio | |
Director of Photography: | Rudolf Blahacek | |
Executive Production by | Robert Halmi Jr. |
Product Description:
During the festering summer of 1991, racial tensions between the African-American and Hasidic communities of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, reached a boiling point when a Jewish man accidentally struck and killed a black child while driving his car. The explosive riots that followed culminated with the stabbing death of a rabbinical student by a black teenager and elevated the already wounded community to an almost unbearable level of grief and anger. Showtime's original film CROWN HEIGHTS plays out against this historical background with a fictionalized story of two alliances--one between a Hasidic rabbi (Howie Mandel) and an African-American community leader (Mario Van Peebles); the other between black and Jewish teenagers with a mutual love for hip-hop music--that attempt to heal the neighborhood's widening racial divide with mutual respect and understanding.