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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its intimate, child-height view of a working-class Black neighborhood finds the same lived-in family texture as Crooklyn, balancing playful street observation with the quiet pressures bearing down on adults.
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Why this pick
A 1970s coming-of-age story with a vivid period soundtrack and warm family comedy, centered on a boy absorbing the contradictions, pleasures, and growing pains around him.
03
Why this pick
Like Crooklyn, it filters a complicated family through an observant child’s imagination; its richly specific 1960s world is more mysterious and gothic, but equally emotionally attentive.
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Why this pick
This affectionate, funny look back at childhood friendships in 1980s Inglewood shares Crooklyn’s nostalgia without sanding away neighborhood specificity or the awkwardness of growing up.
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Why this pick
A forceful New York family story whose changing cityscape and textured domestic moments echo Crooklyn’s love for place, while following a mother and son across decades.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1973, nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) and her brothers Clinton (Carlton Williams), Wendell (Sharif Rashed), Nate (Chris Knowings), and Joseph (Tse-Mach Washington) live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The children live with their parents, Woody (Delroy Lindo), a struggling musician, and Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), a schoolteacher.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tony Eyes / Jim
Troy
Joseph
Nate
Snuffy
Neighbour
Cornell
Bodega Woman
