Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee · 1989 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

The hottest day of a Brooklyn summer, on a block where Sal has run his pizzeria for twenty-five years and Mookie delivers for him. A neighborhood regular asks why the Wall of Fame has only Italians on it and starts pushing a boycott while the heat holds. The question of whose pictures hang on the wall, asked where nobody has room to step back.

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