Released
Do the Right Thing
June 14 1989 (over 35 years ago)Rating
78
Based on
1775 reviews
It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can Do the Right Thing.
- Director: Spike Lee
- Writer: Spike Lee
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 2 h
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Box office: $37,300,000
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Universal Pictures, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
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.
