Crown Heights

Name: Crown Heights
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Crime
Released: August 18, 2017
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Adriane Lenox, Bill Camp, Brian Tyree Henry, Carlos Hendricks, Gbenga Akinnagbe

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IFC Films | Release Date: August 18, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Adriane Lenox, Bill Camp, Brian Tyree Henry, Carlos Hendricks, Gbenga Akinnagbe, James Udom, Josh Pais, Lakeith Stanfield, Luke Forbes, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Mohammed Ali, Natalie Paul, Nestor Carbonell, Nnamdi Asomugha, Ron Canada, Yul Vazquez, Zach Grenier

Summary: In the spring of 1980, a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin’s childhood friend Carl 'KC' King devotes hisIn the spring of 1980, a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin’s childhood friend Carl 'KC' King devotes his life to fighting for Colin’s freedom. He works on appeals, takes loans for lawyer fees and becomes a legal courier to learn the court system. This incredible true story is adapted from the acclaimed This American Life segment.… Expand

Director: Matt Ruskin

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Romance, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Soren Andersen

Sep 6, 2017

What Warner undergoes in Crown Heights is difficult to watch. Yet in the end, remarkably. there is triumph. And, finally, justice. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 18, 2017

Stanfield is a true movie star, radiating decency even as the character's shell hardens. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Aug 31, 2017

As compelling as Warner’s story is, Crown Heights never quite takes hold cinematically. It’s a procedural whose central protagonist remains necessarily passive and something of a cipher, despite the wellsprings of emotion that Stanfield manages to tap simply by gazing balefully out a cell window. Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

Aug 14, 2017

As written and directed by Matt Ruskin, the tragic story of Colin Warner doesn’t so much come to life on the screen as it is responsibly recalled in Crown Heights, aided by effective performances and some streamlined storytelling. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Aug 24, 2017

It’s an earnest rather then energetic retelling but Stanfield’s stare is indelible. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Jan 27, 2017

Crown Heights works best when the political and the personal merge with the insidious nature of corruption and systemic cultural, societal and economic oppression. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 27, 2017

Despite the efforts of its cast, Crown Heights is too crammed and hectic to convey the immensity of the systemic evils that run through its ruptured heart. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 12, 2017

I didn't know it was based on real life events until shortly before I began to watch it, no doubt it gives it more strength to it but in reality it is a very practical drama.

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