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Synopsis
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American independent comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee. It features an ensemble cast that includes Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and John Savage 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's day.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Class DivideThemeA block where the businesses belong to people who do not live on it; the film spends one hot day itemising who takes money out of a neighbourhood and who only occupies it.
- Order and ChaosThemeThe heat rises all day over a set of rules nobody states aloud, and the film is exact about the moment they stop holding.
Credits
- Producer
- Spike Lee, Monty Ross
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Screenplay
- Spike Lee
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Dickerson
- Original Music Composer
- Bill Lee
- Editor
- Barry Alexander Brown
- Country
- United States
Box office · USD, worldwide
×4.59return on budget
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