Do the right thing, a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee
Type
Label
Do the right thing, a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R
Main title
Do the right thing
Oclc number
1102602041
Responsibility statement
a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee
Runtime
120
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 97
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
Table Of Contents
disc one. [Feature film; Special features] -- disc two. [Special features]
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Police brutality -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Race relations
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
- Dark comedy films
- Italian American families
- Police brutality
- Drama
- Riots
- New York (State) + New York
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Riots -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Family-owned business enterprises -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Feature films
- United States -- Race relations -- Drama
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Italian Americans -- Drama
- Fiction films
- African Americans + Relations with Italian Americans
- United States
- Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- African Americans
Content
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- Contributor15
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- Subject22
- Police brutality -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Race relations
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
- Dark comedy films
- Italian American families
- Police brutality
- Drama
- Riots
- New York (State) + New York
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Riots -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Family-owned business enterprises -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Feature films
- United States -- Race relations -- Drama
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Italian Americans -- Drama
- Fiction films
- African Americans + Relations with Italian Americans
- United States
- Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- African Americans
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