Love Lessons From Our Favorite Spike Lee Joints
- By
Veronica Wells
“Crooklyn”
There’s nothing like a mother’s love
As children we don’t realize how big of a role our mothers play in our lives until we’re much older. But for the Carmichael children in Lee’s semi-autobiographical film “Crooklyn” that lesson came earlier than expected. With a struggling artist for a husband and five rowdy children to raise, the family’s matriarch, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard) often goes underappreciated. In fact one of her sons Clinton (Carlton William) says he’d “rather have a father than a mother any day.” You know how kids are. As the movie progresses the children and their father learn just how much their mother and wife meant to them.
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