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A 1989 American comedy-drama film by Spike Lee about racial tension and violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The film explores the characters, conflicts and consequences of a hot summer's day, and features a famous scene of a police officer choking a Black man to death.
Do the Right Thing: Directed by Spike Lee. With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Spike Lee
- 1989-07-21
May 27, 2001 · 120 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1989. Roger Ebert. May 27, 2001. 7 min read. I have been given only a few filmgoing experiences in my life to equal the first time I saw “Do the Right Thing.”. Most movies remain up there on the screen. Only a few penetrate your soul. In May of 1989 I walked out of the screening at the Cannes Film Festival with tears ...
Reviews. Do the Right Thing. Comedy. 120 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1989. Roger Ebert. June 30, 1989. 6 min read. Spike Lee ‘s “Do the Right Thing” is the most controversial film of the year, and it only opens today. Thousands of people already have seen it at preview screenings, and everywhere I go, people are discussing it.
Do the Right Thing. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that ...
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- Spike Lee
- R
- Danny Aiello
Synopsis. Mookie (Spike Lee) is a young man living in a black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee), and works as a pizza delivery man for a local pizzeria. Salvatore "Sal" Frangione (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has owned it for 25 years.
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What begins as an uproarious comedy evolves into a provocative, disquieting drama as director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial...
