Crown Heights

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Crown Heights ★★½ 2002 (R)

An orthodox Rabbi and an African-American community leader join forces to save their racially-fractured neighborhood from more violence. Inspired by real-life events after the 1991 Brooklyn riots that were triggered by a Jewish man accidentally running down a black child. 93m/C VHS, DVD . Jeremy Blackman, Jason Blicker, Daniel Kash, Judah Katz, Mpho Koaho, Michael Yarmush; D: Jeremy Paul Kagan; W: Michael D'Antonio, Toni Johnson; C: Rudolf Blahacek; M: Aaron Zig-man. TV

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