Where can you get five Spike Lee movies for less than $4.00 each? In the “Spike Lee Joint Collection.” For only $17.49 you can purchase this entire set of Spike Lee movies which is only $3.70 per film.
The five Spike Lee movies in the Spike Lee Joint Collection are (in alphabetical order):
∙ Clockers
∙ Crooklyn
∙ Do the Right Thing
∙ Jungle Fever
∙ Mo’ Better Blues
These five movies are a nice compilation of early Spike Lee films. Some are comedies. Some are urban dramas. All of them showcase Spike Lee’s gift for bringing African-American life to the screen, even controversial topics within the Black community. They also show Spike Lee’s gift for identifying top African-American stars early in their careers like Halle Berry, Denzel Washington and Mekhi Phifer.
About the Movies
“Jungle Fever” and “Clockers” are notable because these films were the first major movie roles for stars Halle Berry and Mekhi Phifer. Halle Berry’s very first movie role was as the crack addicted Vivian in “Jungle Fever.” This was quite an interesting start for an actress who would become famous for her beauty and glamour. Eleven years after her first role in “Jungle Fever”, Halle Berry won the Best Actress Academy Award.
Mekhi Phifer’s very first movie role was in the Spike Lee film “Clockers.” During an open cast call, Phifer won the role of the character Spike in this crime/mystery drama. After “Clockers,” Phifer went on to become celebrated for his role in the movie “A Lesson Before Dying” (A Top 100 Black Classic Movie) and as a regular on the TV Show “ER.” Mekhi Phifer has won two NAACP Image Awards for his role as Dr. Gregory Pratt on the TV drama ER.
“Do the Right Thing” is one of Spike Lee’s most critically-acclaimed films. This movie’s funny, yet serious depiction of racial tension in a Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on a hot summer day is considered a classic. In fact, “Do the Right Thing” is one of the few African-American films to be selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry. (Click here to read more about African-American films in the National Film Registry.)
In 1990, right after making “Do the Right Thing”, Spike Lee made “Mo’ Better Blues.”. Denzel Washington stars in “Mo’ Better Blues” as jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam. Lee made this movie as a tribute to the jazz trumpet music that he grew up hearing his father, Bill Lee, play at home. Spike Lee’s father, Bill Lee, also composed the music for the “Mo’ Better Blues” movie soundtrack. Twelve years after starring in “Mo Better Blues,” Denzel Washington won the coveted Best Actor Academy Award.
The family involvement in Spike Lee’s filmmaking continued with his 1994 movie “Crooklyn.” “Crooklyn” is a semi-autobiographical film about what it was like for Spike Lee and his siblings to grow up in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s. Spike Lee’s sister, Joie Lee, and brother, Cinque Lee, helped to write “Crooklyn.”
One of the Greatest African-American Directors of Our Time
Spike Lee is one of the greatest African-American film directors of our time. After his first theatrical movie “She’s Gotta Have It” was a box-office success, Spike Lee proved to Hollywood skeptics that there was a profitable audience African-American films. This opened the door for more African-American movies to be made. The impact of this is still being felt today.
For all African-American film lovers, especially Spike Lee fans, the “Spike Lee Joint Collection” is an excellent buy.
Benefits of the “Spike Lee Joint Collection”
• This is the only Spike Lee DVD movie collection being sold at this time.
• It’s a great bargain. You get five Spike Lee films for less than $4 each.
• These movies are a nice compilation of films from one of the greatest African-American film directors of our time.
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