Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHOTOGRAPH IN LAST Thursday's New York Times showed James Sinkler after hearing that his son, Tyrone, was one of two students killed in the corridors of Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School...
...prisons. As a social worker last summer for a group in Manhattan which advocates in family court for poor kids from broken families, I went to East New York several times. From Canal Street in lower Manhattan, it's good half-hour subway ride to the eastern heart of Brooklyn, and the land of East New York...
Throughout, the Brooklyn brashness of Pesci and his fiance, Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) contrasts with the hokey lifestyle of the local folk. Pesci and Vito are foreigners here, as evidenced by their black clothing, ample gold jewelry, and paucity of Southern charm. But the film's humor and action become engrossing only in its final third, at the trial...
Straight Out of Brooklyn--Nineteen-year-old Matty Rich's directing debut delves into the life of a Black family in Red Hook, a Brooklyn housing complex. The movie examines the fate of the young generation in urban New York City. The viewer sympathizes with the plight of the son. Dennis Brown, who looks down on his father, an abusive gas-pumper. But Brown has no patience to work his way out of Brooklyn and is determined to rob a drug dealer. Both the father and son emerge as the victims and not the villains of society...
While Straight Out of Brooklyn was not a box-office smash, it is more realistic than New Jack City and more moving than Boyz in the Hood. The movie avoids the glamour of the drug culture and instead focuses on the dilemma facing ambitious Black youths...