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Do the Right Thing

Director: Spike Lee Run Time: 126 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 1989

Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Spike Lee

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito), 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.

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