Product Details

• Actors: George T. Odom, Ann D. Sanders, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Barbara Sanon, Reana E. Drummond
• Directors: Matty Rich
• Writers: Matty Rich
• Producers: Matty Rich, Allen Black, Ira Deutchman, Lindsay Law
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: June 3, 1994
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302241006
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #292,108 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A beleaguered family feverishly tries to get out intact from New York's notorious Red Hook projects in this micro-budget debut film from writer-director-star Matty Rich. The director deserves attention for simply getting this unrelentingly bleak movie created and then released (as has been well documented, the then-19-year-old Rich had to gather the thinnest of shoestring budgets from friends and various grants); but the genuine passion behind this gangland drama can't disguise the fact that what's being presented here isn't particularly new or innovative. (A much more facile treatment of a similar subject can be found in Boaz Yakin's stunning Fresh.) Despite the impressively gritty locations, honestly pessimistic worldview, and George T. Odom's raw performance as a haplessly abusive patriarch, one can't quite shake the unfortunate feeling that this is a film more notable for its backstory than what actually made it up onto the screen. Rich would later go on to make the considerably more polished, Disney-funded coming-of-age story The Inkwell. --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars George T. 0dom is George T. Riffic!!!, December 9, 2008

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Smegma Cheese (l got a hundred guns, a hundred clips 'coz l'm from New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Straight Out of Brooklyn (DVD)

George T. proves he can play gritty, tough street characters the way he portrayed Long Dong Silver in the biopic ''Silver Lining''. l found out that in the end of the movie when he is running from the drug dealers with Carl Lewis-like speed, that is was him and not a stunt double. Just like that was him and not a double in ''Silver Lining''. Just another example of George having not only style, but substance. You might say he has substantial substance.

What a man, what a man, what a might good man!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXTRAORDINARY LOW BUDGET ACCOMPLISHMENT!, January 2, 2006

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Kirk Alex - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Straight Out of Brooklyn (DVD)

Matty Rich and the entire cast do a fine job here. Way better than Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It--and with a lot more to say.

I have only one question: Why hasn't Matty Rich made more films?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RED HOOK all the way man!, July 27, 2005

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Daniel L. Apgar (Stockton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Straight Out of Brooklyn (DVD)

yo yo, dis movie rocks big time. Dennis is the man!

"where did you get these beans?" great scene!

It doesn't get any more real than this! It shows the struggle that

so many families living in the projects go through. and how violence really doesn't solve your problems!

"yo, that is my GIRL" " I can get 30 guns, 10 for each of us!"

saab 9000 does 150 in first gear! wow!

don't miss this movie! it's one for the ages. Matty Rich rocks!