Do the Right Thing (1989) [R]

Release Date:
June 14, 1989

Original Title:
Do the Right Thing

Alternate Titles:
Faça a Coisa Certa
Fà La Cosa Giusta
Haz lo que debas
Rób, co należy
ドゥ・ザ・ライト・シング:1989
为所应为
循规蹈矩
똑바로 살아라

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: R18+  DE: 12  ES: 16  FR: TP  GB: 18  GR: 16  IE: 18  JP: R18+  NL: 16  US: R 

Runtime: 120

It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can Do the Right Thing.

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

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American Film Institute (AFI)

2004
#40
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100 Greatest American Movie Music
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2007
#96
100 Years: 100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
100 Greatest American Films Of All Time

ADR Editor:
Brunilda Torres

Art Department Coordinator:
Pam Stephens

Assistant Art Director:
Dennis Bradford

Assistant Camera:
Bob Gorelick
Paul Reuter

Assistant Costume Designer:
Karen Perry

Assistant Editor:
Tula Goenka

Assistant Production Coordinator:
Robin Downes

Assistant Set Decoration:
Jon Rudo

Assistant Sound Editor:
Marissa Littlefield
James Flatto
Nic Ratner

Best Boy Electric:
Val DeSalvo

Best Boy Grip:
Paul Wachter

Boom Operator:
Andrew Schmetterling

Camera Operator:
George Pattison
Frank Prinzi
John Newby

Casting:
Robi Reed

Casting Assistant:
Andrea Reed

Co-Producer:
Monty Ross

Color Timer:
John Nicolard
Bob Hagans

Construction Coordinator:
Martin Bernstein

Costume Design:
Ruth E. Carter

Craft Service:
Cheryl Ann Scott

Dialogue Editor:
Jeffrey Stern

Director:
Spike Lee

Director of Photography:
Ernest R. Dickerson

Dolly Grip:
Rex North

Editor:
Barry Alexander Brown

Electrician:
James Boorman
Christopher Vanzant
Serge Mihajlov
John O'Malley

Extras Casting:
Sarah Hyde Hamlet

First Assistant Camera:
Jonathan Burkhart

First Assistant Director:
Randy Fletcher

Foley Artist:
Marko Costanzo

Foley Editor:
Gail Showalter

Gaffer:
Charles Houston

Generator Operator:
Derrick Still

Grip:
Rodney Bauer
John Archibald
Roger Kimpton
Erich Augenstein
Donald Bialer

Hairstylist:
Larry M. Cherry

Key Grip:
Robert Ippolito

Lead Set Dresser:
Keith Wall

Leadman:
Scott Rosenstock

Line Producer:
Jon Kilik

Location Manager:
Brent Owens

Makeup Artist:
Matiki Anoff
Marianna Najjar

Music Editor:
Alex Steyermark

Original Music Composer:
Bill Lee

Producer:
Spike Lee

Production Controller:
Robert F. Nickson

Production Coordinator:
Susan D. Fowler

Production Design:
Wynn Thomas

Production Office Coordinator:
Lillian Pyles

Production Supervisor:
Preston L. Holmes

Property Master:
Octavio Molina

Props:
Kevin Ladson
Andrew Lassman
Mark Paul Selemon

Screenplay:
Spike Lee

Script Supervisor:
Joe Gonzalez

Seamstress:
Valerie Gladstone-Appel

Second Assistant Camera:
Darnell Martin

Second Assistant Director:
Nandi Bowe

Second Second Assistant Director:
Christopher Lopez

Set Decoration:
Steve Rosse

Set Dresser:
Michael L. Benson
Anthony Baldasare
James R. Bilz
Thomas Hudson Reeve
Jeffrey Rollins

Sound Designer:
Skip Lievsay

Sound Editor:
Tony Martinez
Eugene Gearty
Bruce Pross
Stuart Stanley
Rudy Gaskins

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Tom Fleischman

Sound Recordist:
Frank Stettner

Special Effects:
Steven Kirshoff

Still Photographer:
David Lee

Storyboard Artist:
Jeff Balsmeyer

Stunt Coordinator:
Eddie Smith

Stunt Double:
Danny Aiello III

Stunt Driver:
Mharaka Washington

Stunts:
Andy Duppin
Erik Koniger
Rashon Khan
Eric Payne
Malcolm Livingston
Gary Frith
Dominic Marcus
David S. Lomax
Roy Thomas

Supervising Dialogue Editor:
Philip Stockton

Unit Manager:
R.W. Dixon

Unit Publicist:
Sam Mattingly

Wardrobe Assistant:
Millicent Shelton

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Jennifer Ruscoe

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