Danny Aiello
Sal
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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.
- (114K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Spike Lee
- 1989-07-21
A classic pioneering movie that showed the world what Spike Lee can do. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brook...
- 2 min
- 352K
- thecultbox
A film by Spike Lee about racial tensions and violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood on a hot summer day. Follow Mookie, a pizza delivery boy, and his interactions with the locals, including Sal, the pizzeria owner, and Buggin Out, a black activist.
May 27, 2001 · Do the Right Thing. Comedy. 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.
“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.
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...
- (110)
- Drama
- R
