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Do the right thing

Title:

Do the right thing

Author:

Lee, Spike.

Edition:

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Publication Information:

Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.

Summary:

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large Radio Raheem. He is unwilling to succumb to the over-excessive brutality of the police and the racist views of Sal and his family. The overzealous police officers don't understand the repercussions of the violence they just unleashed. The neighbors band together to protest this extreme form of pure, toxic bigotry. Mob mentality takes over and the other local non-African American store owners become threatened. Tempers flare and rage is in the air.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.

Special features: Disc 1: 20th anniversary edition feature commentary with director Spike Lee; feature commentary with director Spike Lee, director of photography Ernest Dickerson, production designer Wynn Thomas and actor Joie Lee; "Do the right thing: 20 years later:" new retrospective documentary with the cast and crew; deleted and extended scenes. Disc 2: Behind-the-scenes: Spike Lee's personal video footage from the set; "Making Do the right thing:" in-depth documentary on the making of the film; interview with editor Barry Brown; "The riot sequence:" storyboard gallery of the climatic riot sequence; Cannes, 1989: press conference footage from the Film Festival.

Language:

English

French

Spanish

Contents:

Disc 1. Feature film -- Special features -- Disc 2. Special features.

Reading Level:

MPAA rating: R.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Italian Americans -- Drama.

Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.