Crown Heights R

Crown Heights
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item number:  CAN 1136D
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  • 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.

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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.

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  • UPC: 758445113624
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