Do the Right Thing

Watch or Download Do the Right Thing 1989. Director Spike Lee, Cast Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee,

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise. Movie Do the Right Thing with English,Russian subtitles.

Genres

Drama,

Keywords

new york city, black people, italian american, police brutality, hip-hop, culture clash, street war, heat, restaurant critic, radio transmission, punk rock, chaos, police operation, pizzeria, pizza, love, money, racism, hate, brooklyn, new york city, heatwave,

Do the Right Thing Parent guide

BBFC Reason

strong language, racist language, violence, nudity On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

BBFC Ratings info

DO THE RIGHT THING is a US drama about the simmering tensions in a multi-racial community in New York that spill over into violence on a hot summer's day. Language: There are multiple uses of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'c**ksucker', 'f**k'). Other bad language includes 'bastard' and 'shit'. Discrimination: Frequent racial abuse is exchanged between black, white and Asian characters. However, the work as a whole does not endorse discriminatory attitudes. Nudity: There is a single scene of sexualised nudity as a man runs ice cubes over the bare breasts of his girlfriend. Violence: A scene of strong violence sees a street fight broken up by police. One man has a policeman's baton pulled across his throat and held there until he passes out and dies. There are moderate sex references including a man saying that he is trying to keep his 'dick hard in a cruel and harsh world'. A woman also complains that it is too hot to make love.

Sex & Nudity

moderate

Sex & Nudity Reason

Some sexual references. A man cools his girlfriend off by rubbing ice cubes on her body. Brief but very clear close-ups of her breasts can be seen but the camera does not focus on the nipples

Violence & Gore

moderate

Violence & Gore Reason

A man starts a ruckus in a pizza parlor and gets forced out. Two young men are seen scuffling briefly in a pizza parlor storage room A boy is almost run over by a car but is pushed out of the way by an old man. A riot breaks out when a man bashes another man's stereo in a pizza parlor with a baseball bat, the man with the bat is then forced out of his shop, people trash and torch the restaurant, a cop asphyxiates a man with a nightstick and other related pandemonium breaks out into the streets, ending with the pizza parlor burning to the ground.

Profanity

severe

Profanity Reason

240 uses of "fuck", other strong language and racial epithets (including one montage) throughout. The N-word is used a lot and at times in a racist context.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

mild

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking Reason

Some scenes of smoking and people drinking beer

Frightening & Intense Scenes

moderate

Frightening & Intense Scenes Reason

The movie is in part a comedy and has a pretty light overall feel to it for around 2/3 of its length. Although many scenes depict racial tensions between different ethnic groups in Brooklyn and racial slurs for almost every group are used, this might be uncomfortable for some. Radio raheems death at the End of the film is extremely intensely and emotional and it is even more so because it is police brutality that kills after all he did wrong was annoy someone for playing someone for playing music. The killing of a man by police officers and the riot which follows afterwards at the end of the film is intense and disturbing.

Studio

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures,

Countrie

United States of America,

Subtitles

English, Russian,

Audio

English

Director

Spike Lee

Starring

Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Rosie Perez Martin Lawrence Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro John Savage Roger Guenveur Smith Joie Lee Steve White Leonard L. Thomas Christa Rivers Robin Harris Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison Samuel L. Jackson Rick Aiello Miguel Sandoval Luis Antonio Ramos Frank Vincent Richard Habersham Ginny Yang Nicholas Turturro Gwen McGee Steve Park Sherwin Park Shawn Elliott Diva Osorio Chris Delaney Angel Ramirez Jr. Sixto Ramos Nelson Vasquez Travell Lee Toulson Joel Nagle David E. Weinberg Yatte Brown Mecca Brunson Shawn Stainback Soquana Wallace

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