Do the Right Thing

Name: Do the Right Thing
Released: 1989-6-14
Cast: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito

Do the Right Thing

R
2h 0m
1989

93%

age 16+

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This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. Danny Aiello co-stars in this absorbing tale of inner-city life that heats up with vivid images and unforgettable performances.

Director:

Spike Lee

Producer:

Spike Lee

Writer:

Spike Lee

Cast:

Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson, John Savage, Rosie Perez, Lawrence, Martin, Richard Edson, Miguel Sandoval

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Smart, vibrant, and urgent without being didactic, Do the Right Thing is one of Spike Lee's most fully realized efforts -- and one of the most important films of the 1980s.

Reviews

Celluloid Dreams

Peter Canavese

Spike Lee's magnum opus -- a Stanley Kramer film on steroids. Easily on the best social issue films ever made. (4K HD Blu-ray review).

February 16, 2021

FULL REVIEW

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

The film is honest, realistic and wonderfully written and directed by Lee.

A compelling, commanding picture that can't truly be approached with objectiveness.

A delectable time capsule of 1989 Brooklyn which is unfortunately as prescient as ever in its deliberation on rampant racism and police brutality, a formidable cast... makes for an unforgettable experience.

A provocative work, emboldened not by anger but by desperation and passion.

July 15, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Spike Lee's masterwork of racial unrest; discuss with kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is an intense study of racism as it existed in an urban U.S. neighborhood during the late 1980s. There are many angry racial confrontations using provocative, coarse language and highly-charged racial taunts, including constant use of "n----r." Violence realistically depicted includes: a riot, fistfights, a crowd setting fire to a restaurant, a man being choked by police using a baton. One sexual scene shows a couple during foreplay and uses extreme close-ups of a woman's body parts: her legs, her breasts, her neck. A leading character drinks beer continuously.