Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing

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- 80/100 based on 107,994 votes
  • Released: 1989
  • Runtime: 120 mins
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  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something t... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Do the Right Thing:

Danny Aiello
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Richard Edson
Giancarlo Esposito
Spike Lee

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This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone.

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Filmcritic.com - 10/10 by Bill GibronLee shows us both sides of the situation, and lets us decide for ourselves. The results are devastating.
Groucho Reviews - 10/10 by Peter CanaveseA towering achievement in American cinema, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing takes a hard look at a community in crisis. [Blu-ray]
Sly Fox - 10/10 by Kam WilliamsA riveting drama which remains just as intense as when it debuted in 1989.
The Moving Picture Show - 10/10 by Joe Leydon[A] movie that gives us the vitality of urban street life and the viciousness of racism in a single, brightly bedecked, booby-trapped package.
Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Gene SiskelThis might sound like a depressing story, but the level of performance and filmmaking is so high that Do the Right Thing becomes a most entertaining warning.
Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/10 by Carrie Rickey[Do the Right Thing is] an exceptional film, a movie that wisely deprives you of the cozy resolutions and epiphanies so often manufactured by Hollywood. Like the film's principals, you are left feeling that you have been torched where you live.
ReelViews - 10/10 by James BerardinelliOne of Lee's great successes with this film is that he is able to present every character, regardless of race, gender, or age, with three-dimensionality and a degree of sympathy. No one is demonized or lionized. No one individual is blamed or exonerated for the events which transpire. Each individual with significant screen time is shown to have good and bad qualities, and we come to understand what motivates them, even if we do not agree with them.
Mr. Showbiz - 10/10 by Carmel DaganWith its ingenious camera style, keenly dramatic music score, and brash yet indomitable humor, Do the Right Thing is the richest and most thought-provoking portrait of underclass experience that Hollywood has ever given us.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Judy StoneThere's no doubt about the film's sheer power and taut originality.
Seanax.com - 10/10 by Sean Axmaker[Spike] Lee doesn't attempt to answer the complicated questions of racism, misunderstanding and simmering anger as much as confront them with a hard clarity.

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