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Do the Right Thing
starring: Danny Aiello, Rick Aiello, Paul Benjamin, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783227948
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783227949
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 1998
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 6256
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1989

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The hottest day of the year in the bedford-stuyvesant area of brooklyn explodes into events that will change the residents lives forever. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/09/2007 Starring: Danny Aiello Ruby Dee Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R Director: Spike Lee

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Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of life in this neighborhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does the 'right thing.' Featuring Danny Aiello as Sal, the pizza parlor owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery guy; John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sal's sons; Lee's sister Joie as Mookie's sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookie's girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo Esposito as Mookie's hot-headed friend Buggin' Out; Bill Nunn as the boom-box toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L. Jackson as deejay Mister Señor Love Daddy. A rich and nuanced film to watch, treasure, and learn from--over and over again. --Jim Emerson

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- 3 stars out of 4
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Do the Right Thing is sometimes meandering and unfocused, and it is sometimes a bit too willing to change characters when necessary (look at the cops who are painted as decent fellows in one scene and racists in the next), but it is a powerful film that dares to ask ugly questions which have no obvious answers, and isn't that everything?

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- Before there was `Crash'...
...there was `Do the Right Thing'. Honestly, anyone that downgrades `Crash' for being far too heavy-handed and unrealistic in its portrayal of race relations, yet lauds `Do the Right Thing' is obviously out of their minds; for the two films are practically the same film. The only thing that `Do the Right Thing' has going for it is the time issue, as in the film is set back in the 80's when this type of behavior was more prevalent (`Crash' is so incredibly unrealistic I wanted to literally kill Paul Haggis).

Cast aside the fact that I think Spike Lee is a terrible person, this film in general is really not that good.

Spike Lee is the type of director who either scores very high or sinks very low. When he is working from another medium (as with `25th Hour') he does a really good job, for he is a very good `director', but honestly I don't think he is a very good `writer'. His ideas are ... Read More

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- Do the right thing
Do The Right Thing is a very loud and in your face film and set Spike Lee up for a long career are racially charged films. Overall i quite liked the film and while there are some specific complaints that i have it still warrants praise, especially for its complex and controversial subject matter.

The film starts out quite simple, simply showing life in New York in a black neighborhood. For a large part of the film I had trouble finding any particularly coherent plot. Normally I would immediately be put off by this in a film but I think Lee makes it work. His honest portrayal of communities like this one overshadows the lack a specific plot. Later on though, different character dynamics begin to take prominence and the point of the film becomes clearer.

The acting in the film plays a large part in making to film seem real and all the actors played their parts well. I'm especially impressed ... Read More

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- Summer in the city
Director Spike Lee wastes no time turning up the heat in this provocative allegorical dramedy about race relations in America, filtered through a day in the life of Brooklyn's multi-ethnic Bed-Stuy neighborhood. From the opening credits, which literally explode onto the screen with a muy caliente Rosie Perez busting some serious moves to the strains of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power", to the jaw-dropping climax, this is one of those rare films that manages to engage mind, body and soul all at once. One of the few films on the subject that is not afraid to admit to and confront the fact that bigotry comes in all colors. I think it remains his finest work to date. The cast includes Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro and Giancarlo Esposito. Criterion-what took you guys so long?

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