Directed by:
Jeremy KaganCinematography:
Rudolf BlaháčekComposer:
Aaron ZigmanCast:
Dequan Henderson, Mario Van Peebles, Bob Cryer, Daniel Kash, Howie Mandel, Mpho Koaho, Panou, Jeremy Blackman, K.C. Collins, Yanna McIntosh, Kevin Duhaney (more)Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
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