Do the Right Thing 1989

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 120 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: hood

director: Spike Lee

Score: 8 / 10

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 simmering racial tension between its African-American residents and the Italian-American owners of a local pizzeria, culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer day.

Plot

Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant with his sister Jade, has a toddler son named Hector with his girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a local pizzeria that has been owned and operated for 25 years by Sal, an Italian-American who lives in Bensonhurst. Sal's racist eldest son Pino is antagonistic towards Mookie, clashing with both his father, who refuses to move his business out of the majority African-American neighborhood, and his younger brother Vito, who is friendly with Mookie.

Awards

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More details

author	Spike Lee
award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
contentLocation	Brooklyn
director	Spike Lee
editor	Barry Alexander Brown
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	african-american neighborhood anti-italianism arthur miller bedford–stuyvesant betray boombox brownstone building on fire death of michael stewart delivery man disabled edmund perry eleanor bumpurs fight fight the power fire hydrant follow guinea bastards hatred italian-american kill majority african-american malcolm x martin luther king martin luther king jr. mentally disabled michael griffith michael stewart nigger phone call police car public enemy puerto rican radio raheem store owner warn
musicBy	Bill Lee
nomination	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
producer	Spike Lee
productionCompany	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
publisher	Universal Pictures
recordedAt	New York City
theme	hip hop hood independent race and ethnicity