Crooklyn Trivias

The film is loosely based on lives of Spike Lee and his siblings (who co-wrote the script).The "disorienting" view when the family is in the country was created by shooting in widescreen without anamorphically adjusting the image.None of the children on set had any idea how to play any of the street games their characters engage in - Lee had to personally instruct them.

Although no specific year is specified at any point in the movie, the events in the movie were most likely intended to take place in the spring and summer of 1973 for the following concrete reasons: 1.) The son who wore the glasses and was the Knicks fan chose to attend the final game of the NBA Finals instead of his father's concert. He half-heartedly told his family afterwords that the Knicks won, and the only years the Knicks won in the 70's were 1970 and 1973, but . . . 2.) "Soul Train", which the kids were seen dancing to towards the end of the film, made it's debut in 1971, eliminating the possibility that the child attended the 1970 NBA Finals.