Do the right thing

Resource Information

The work Do the right thing represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ripon Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Do the right thing

Statement of responsibility

a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production, a Spike Lee joint ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee

Contributor

• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Aiello, Danny, 1933-2019
• Davis, Ossie
• Dee, Ruby
• Edson, Richard
• Esposito, Giancarlo
• Lee, Bill, 1928-
• Lee, Spike
• Nunn, Bill, 1952-2016
• Savage, John, 1949-
• Turturro, John, 1957-

Subject

• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Relations with Italian Americans
• Afronorteamericanos -- Nueva York (Estados Unidos : Estado) | Nueva York -- Teatro
• Dark comedy films
• Estados Unidos -- Relaciones raciales -- Teatro
• Family-owned business enterprises -- New York (State) | New York
• Italian American families -- New York (State) | New York
• Police brutality -- New York (State) | New York
• Riots -- New York (State) | New York
• United States -- Race relations
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Dark comedy films
• Teatro
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photography, Ernest Dickerson ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown ; original music, Bill Lee

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.D6 2009

PerformerNote

Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, John Savage

Runtime

120

Technique

live action