Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedydrama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who also played the part of Mookie in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson. It is also notably the feature film debut of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The movie tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhoods simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on the hottest day of summer.

Mookie Spike Lee is a 26yearold black man living in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade Joie Lee. He and his teenage girlfriend Tina Rosie Perez have a son. Hes a pizza delivery man at the local pizzeria, but lacks ambition. Sal Danny Aiello, the pizzerias ItalianAmerican owner, has been in the neighborhood for twentyfive years. His older son Pino John Turturro intensely dislikes blacks, and does not get along with Mookie. Pino is at odds with his younger brother Vito Richard Edson, who is friendly with Mookie.The neighborhood is full of distinct personalities, including Da Mayor Ossie Davis, a friendly local drunk Mother Sister Ruby Dee, who watches the neighborhood from her brownstone Radio Raheem Bill Nunn, who blasts Public Enemy on his boombox wherever he goes and Smiley Roger Guenveur Smith, a mentally disabled man, who meanders around the neighborhood trying to sell handcolored pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. ........

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