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Certificate 18

Cast Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Rubdy Dee Richard Edson John Turturro

Directors Spike Lee

Screenwriters Spike Lee

Running Time 120 minutes

Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's second feature sees him capture New York's sweltering underbelly of racial tensions as keenly as Woody Allen did it's neurotic centre.

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Plot
Buggin' Out (Esposito), a black activist, demands the black community boycott a pizzeria (Sal's). Though this call to arms is laughed off, it unearths racist attitude's in Sal's workforce and in the police, which contribute, along with rising discontentment among the local black community, to and unavoidably bloody finale.

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