Crown Heights [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Ruskin, Matt, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Asomugha, Nnamdi, film producer, actor.

Stanfield, Keith, 1991- actor.

Paul, Natalie (Actor) actor.

Cheatom, Amari, actor.

Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

Los Angeles, CA : Broad Green Pictures, [2017]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

In 1980, a young man named Marvin Grant was gunned down in Flatbush Brooklyn. Clarence Lewis, a fifteen-year-old with a penchant for lying, told the police he saw what happened and was pressured to identify a suspect. This set into motion a series of events that led to the arrest of Colin Warner, an innocent teenager who lived in nearby Crown Heights.

General Note:

Title from container.

Based on WBEZ Chicago's This American life episode 'DIY' by Anya Bourg.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2017.

Wide screen.

Special features: Commentary with director Matt Ruskin & producer Nnamdi Asomugha ; The story behind Crown Heights.

Performers:

Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Amari Cheatom, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Nestor Carbonell, Zach Grenier, Yul Vazquez, Josh Pais, Ron Canada, Bill Camp.

Technical Details:

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Judicial error -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

False imprisonment -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Crime films.