Synopsis: Spike's little brother delivers a gritty, character-driven portrayal of several different lives in Brooklyn, each touched in a different way by violence and urban torment. Lee cast nineteen of his friends as a motley assortment of disenfranchised, dispossessed and downright weird... Spike's little brother delivers a gritty, character-driven portrayal of several different lives in Brooklyn, each touched in a different way by violence and urban torment. Lee cast nineteen of his friends as a motley assortment of disenfranchised, dispossessed and downright weird characters, including junkies, prostitutes, thieves, dealers, dopers, mental patients, street people, and a failed magician, all of whom collide wildly on the hot city streets on a single Friday afternoon during a scorching heatwave. [More]