Do the right thing
by Spike Lee1h591988United States
Recommended byCédric Klapisch, Joachim Trier, Paul Schrader, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Payal Kapadia, Sean Baker
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On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Credits
- Distributor : Universal Pictures
- Production Compagny : 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks Productions , Universal City Studios
- Photo Director : Ernest Dickerson
- Set Decoration : Steve Rosse
- Costume Design : Ruth E. Carter
- Sound Recorder : Skip Lievsay, Tom Fleischman, Rudy Gaskins
- Editing : Barry Alexander Brown
- Original Music : Bill Lee
- Producer : Monty Ross, Spike Lee
- Director : Spike Lee
- Scenario : Spike Lee
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1988
- French release date : 14 juin 1989
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : English
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