Country: USA
Year: 1990
Duration: 91'


The film is a realistic drama about the Third World that exists within the first world nation called America. The film is based on the lives of real people from the filmmaker's own life. Filmed on location in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing projects, the film is brutally frank in its depiction of a struggling black, workingclass family. Ray Brown is a black man who has spent years in a lowpaying job. He blames white people because he cannot provide his family with even the basic necessities. Ray takes out his anger and frustration on his wife, Frankie. Despite the savage abuse she takes from her husband, Frankie tries to hold the family together. The Browns' son Dennis, searches for a quick way to get his family out of its bleak situation and into the world of the American dream. He and his friends plot a risky robbery in the belief that this is their easy way "straight out of Brooklyn". Their plan will have a devastating effect on the Brown family.

Biography

film director

Matty Rich

Matty Rich was born in Brooklyn and attended film school at New York University. Begun at age 17, Straight Out of Brooklyn is Matty's first feature film. Matty founded his Black N' Progress film company in the hope that his work will challenge other young filmmakers to focus attention on some of the important issues that face us.

FILMOGRAFIA

Straight Out of Brooklyn (1990).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Matty Rich.
Director of photography: John Rosnell.
Art director: Walter Meade.
Editor: Jack Haigis.
Music: Harold Wheeler.
Sound: Thomas Argulino.
Cast and characters: George T. Odom (Ray Brown), Ann D. Sanders (Frankie), Lawrence Gilliard Jr (Dennis), Mark Malone, Reana E. Drummond, Barbara Sanon.
Director of Production: Lindsay Law, Ira Deutchman.
Production company: American Playhouse, c/o The Samuel Goldwyn Company.
Foreign sales agent: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, 10203 Santa Monica Blvd, 90067 Los Angeles, tel. 2135522255, fax 2132848493.
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