Do the Right Thing (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can …
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 23, 2019
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spike Lee, Danny Aiello & John Turturro | |
Performer: | Rosie Perez, Richard Edson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, Frankie Faison, Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, Joie Lee, Miguel Sandoval, Rick Aiello, John Savage, Martin Lawrence, Roger Guenveur Smith, Frank Vincent & Samuel L. Jackson | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenwriting by | Spike Lee | |
Composition by | Bill Lee | |
Produced by | Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Dickerson |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Lee's film is stirring....It is floridly cinematic....This is a fascinating movie experience, confident in style...
USA Today
...Assured, confident....[Lee] takes this story, which sounds like grim social realism, and tells it with music, humor, color and exuberant invention. A lot of it is just plain fun...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Lee's oft-maligned scattershot style of storytelling works to perfection here, creating irreplaceable parts of a neighbourhood collage that feels truly alive, with all the messiness that entails.
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Little White Lies
...A subtle and ambiguous work....The still undervalued Danny Aiello is superb...
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
An out-and-out masterpiece, Spike Lee's best movie also remains the most penetrating film ever made about race relations in these United States.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 5/5 --
White people are at war with black people, who are in turn at war with Latinos, but Lee extends to each faction a vibrant pop-culture identity.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
The many messages of the film remain widely unheeded and Do the Right Thing remains as vital and crucial a work of cinematic art today as it was 30 years ago.
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FanboyNation.com
Product Description:
Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a group of racially diverse inhabitants from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood as they spend their day trying to avoid the oppressive heat. These include African American pizza deliveryman Mookie (Lee), the racially sensitive Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), and the silent, boom-box-blasting Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn). Also thrown into the mix are Sal (an Oscar-nominated Danny Aiello), the Italian-American proprietor of Sal's Pizzeria, as well as his two sons, Pino (John Turturro) and Vito (Richard Edson), who hold completely opposing attitudes when it comes to race. After Buggin' Out tries to organize a boycott of Sal's because of the lack of racial diversity on his shop's Wall of Fame, the tensions explode in an act of senseless violence. Lee's film is an electric work of political entertainment that confronts sensitive racial issues head-on. He deftly blends humor and drama as well as using specific music to further amplify his theme (Public Enemy's song "Fight the Power" actually becomes the film's main catalyst for action). Boldly closing the film with opposing quotes from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on the nature of race relations, Lee leaves it up to the viewer to decide if Mookie's actions were the correct ones. Aiello and Esposito are standouts in an all-star cast that includes Lee himself, his sister Joie, "discovery" Rosie Perez, and the married team of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Always one to spark controversy, Lee's summer drama finds the filmmaker at the peak of his craft.
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