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Do the Right Thing

1989 · Spike Lee

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On the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, pizza delivery man Mookie works for Sal, the Italian-American owner of a pizzeria in the mostly Black neighbourhood. Racial tensions between the residents and Sal's family build through the day and erupt into violence that night.

Director
Spike Lee
Studio
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Starring
Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito