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#3 of 1989 · Certified Fresh

Do the Right Thing (1989)

1989 · 120 minutes · Comedy / Drama / European · Directed by Spike Lee
IMDb rating7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Box office gross$37.3M

Synopsis

Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his sister Jade. He has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a pizzeria owned by Italian-American Salvatore "Sal" Frangione. Sal's oldest son, Pino, is a racist who holds contempt for all the Black residents in the neighborhood.

Starring

Danny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeRichard EdsonGiancarlo Esposito
Box office
$37.3 million
Budget
$6.2 million
IMDb votes
126,920

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