Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated film starring himself, Giancarlo Esposito, Bull Nunn, John Turturro, and Ossie Davis. The comedy drama revolves around Spike Lee's young character Mookie, who is stuck in Brooklyn on the hottest day of summer, where bigotry and hate build before exploding into violence.
Do the Right Thing
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- Director
- Spike Lee
- Release Date
- June 14, 1989
- Studio(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Cast
- Danny Aiello , Ossie Davis , Ruby Dee , Richard Edson , Giancarlo Esposito , John Turturro , Spike Lee
- Writers
- Spike Lee
- Runtime
- 120 minutes
- Budget
- $6.5 million
Summary
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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