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Jul 21, 1989 · 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
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. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's ...
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In Do the Right Thing, the destruction of Sal’s Pizzeria is the physical representation of this suppressed anger breaking free. The community feels disenfranchised, and this explosive display of defiance becomes a means to voice their longstanding grievances. The riot, in this sense, becomes a form of catharsis, an emotional release for the ...
Pizza parlor colleagues Pino (John Turturro) and writer-director Spike Lee (as "Mookie") talking about heroes, with intense profanity, neighbors (Luis Ramos, Rick Aiello, Steve Park, Samuel L. Jackson) joining, in Do The Right Thing, 1989.
