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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and Samuel L. Jackson and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez.
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.
Now, there is no turning back. But when you have put everything on the line to make yourself heard, what does it take to do the right thing? — Nick Riganas. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn.
The thing is, there are no answers. There may be heroes and villains, but on this ordinary street in Brooklyn they don't conveniently turn up wearing labels. You can anticipate, step by step, during a long, hot summer day, that trash can approaching Sal's window, propelled by misunderstandings, suspicions, insecurities, stereotyping and simple ...
"Do the Right Thing" tells an honest, unsentimental story about those who are left behind. It is a very well-made film, beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson and well-acted by an ensemble cast.
Do the Right Thing, comedy-drama film, released in 1989, that focuses on the racial tensions in a neighborhood in New York City as they come to a head on the hottest day of the year. The acclaimed yet controversial film was written and directed by Spike Lee and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
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Releasing in 1989, this film Takes place in a diverse neighborhood in Brooklyne during the 80s. The story follows Mookie (Spike Lee) who works at an Italian owned pizza restaurant for Sal (Danny...
Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement.
Racial tensions reach a boiling point over the course of one late-80’s sweltering summer day in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.