Do The Right Thing

Overview Director:Spike Lee Writer:Spike Lee (written by) Release Date:30 June 1989 (USA) more view trailer Genre:Comedy / Drama more Tagline:It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can... Plot Outline: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. more Plot Synopsis:View full synopsis. (warning! may contain spoilers) Plot Keywords:Breaking The Fourth Wall / Window Smashing / Stuttering / Tragedy / African American more Awards:Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations more User Comments:excellent drama with a message more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cast (Cast overview, first billed only) Ossie Davis ... Da Mayor Danny Aiello ... Sal Giancarlo Esposito ... Buggin Out Richard Edson ... Vito Spike Lee ... Mookie Ruby Dee ... Mother Sister Bill Nunn ... Radio Raheem John Turturro ... Pino Paul Benjamin ... ML Rosie Perez ... Tina Robin Harris ... Sweet Dick Willie Frankie Faison ... Coconut Sid Steve White ... Ahmad Leonard L. Thomas ... Punchy (as Leonard Thomas) Samuel L. Jackson ... Mister Señor Love Daddy (as Sam Jackson) more Create a character page for: SalVitoMLTinaSweet Dick WillieCoconut SidAhmadPunchy-----------more... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Details Parents Guide:View content advisory for parents Runtime:120 min Country:USA Language:English Color:Color Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1 more Sound Mix:Dolby Certification:Iceland:12 / Netherlands:16 / Portugal:M/12 / France:Unrated / Australia:R / New Zealand:M / Argentina:16 / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:18A / Chile:18 / Finland:K-16 / Norway:11 (cinema release) / Norway:15 / South Korea:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:18 / USA:R / West Germany:12 / Singapore:M18 Filming Locations:Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA more MOVIEmeter: 1% since last week why? Company:40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fun Stuff Trivia:This film was inspired by an actual incident in New York where some black youths were chased out of a pizzeria by some white youths in a section of New York known as Howard Beach. more Goofs:Continuity: When Buggin Out is bumped into by the man with the bike, he gets hit on his left side, but when he looks at his sneaker, the scuff mark is on the outside of his right shoe. more Quotes:[first lines] Mister Senor Love Daddy: Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake! more Movie Connections:Referenced in 2 Days in the Valley (1996) more Soundtrack:Lift Every Voice and Sing more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAQ This FAQ is empty. Add the first question. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- User Comments (Comment on this title) 33 out of 50 people found the following comment useful:- excellent drama with a message, 10 December 2004 Author: The_Void from Beverley Hills, England If I had to make a list of the top ten things that I find most boring, racism would be right at the summit along with economics and The Blair Witch Project. For that reason, I have avoided Do the Right Thing up until now for fear that it would be a lecture on racism...but actually, I don't know what I was afraid of, as this film is really good. Spike Lee's racial drama is actually more a film about the feebleness of racial divides and how violence only breeds violence, as opposed to a film ABOUT racism. In fact, the film can be best described as a cinematic materialisation of Martin Luther King's famous "an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" speech. For this movie, Spike Lee has put together a terrific cast, that includes many actors that have gone on to become big names in the movie industry, people such as Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro and Martin Lawrence, not to mention smaller stars such as Ossie Davis. The cast comes together excellently and the neighbourhood that Spike Lee has created for this film feels very real, and through the multiple personalities that inhabit it, it manages to stay interesting and realistic throughout. The atmosphere of the neighbourhood is also of note, and you really do get the feeling that someone could say 'biatch' or 'dogg' at any time. Spike Lee delights in showing us many different people, and at different times - including their reactions to certain events and their interactions with each other, and it all helps to build up both their own characters and the neighbourhood that they live in. This proves to be invaluable to the film as it has no real plot and therefore relies on the characters and the neighbourhood that it has created to build itself, it's scenario and therefore it's message, up. Do the Right Thing is a portrait of how multiple cultures live together in modern day America and it also succeeds in being a stark and potent portrayal of how violence never gets anyone anywhere. Spike Lee has shown his talents as an actor, director and a writer with this film, and even though majority opinion of him seems to be that he's a disagreeable old crone; at least he's one that has talent.

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eldorado303 (2009-02-25)

wazza nice movie. but what i really wanna do by using this comment is to burst out my inner emotion. ---> god damn it!!!

throcko (2009-09-18)

This movie is RARed