{"title":"Do The Right Thing","dateDebut":"1989","dateEnd":null,"description":"Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters that matter; a convenience store owned by a Korean couple; and Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the only white-operated business in the neighborhood. Sal (Danny Aiello) serves up slices with his two sons, genial Vito (Richard Edson) and angry, racist Pino (John Turturro). Sal has one black employee, Mookie (Spike Lee), who wants to \"get paid\" but lacks ambition. His sister Jade (Joie Lee, Spike's sister), who has a greater sense of purpose and a \"real\" job, wants Mookie to start dealing with his responsibilities, most notably his son with girlfriend Tina (Rosie Perez). Two of Mookie's best friends are Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), a monolith of a man who rarely speaks, preferring to blast Public Enemy's rap song Fight The Power on his massive boom box; and Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), nicknamed for his coke-bottle glasses and habit of losing his cool. When Buggin' Out notes that Sal's \"Wall of Fame,\" a photo gallery of famous Italian-Americans, includes no people of color, he eventually demands a neighborhood boycott, on a day when tensions are already running high, that incurs tragic consequences.\r\n.ACTORS\r\nDanny Aiello - Sal \r\nSpike Lee - Mookie \r\nRichard Edson - Vito \r\nJohn Turturro - Pino \r\nGiancarlo Esposito - Buggin Out \r\nRosie Perez - Tina \r\nBill Nunn - Radio Raheem \r\nOssie Davis - Da Mayor \r\nRuby Dee - Mother Sister \r\nPaul Benjamin - ML \r\nFrankie R. Faison - Coconut Sid \r\nRobin Harris - Sweet Dick Willie \r\nJoie Lee - Jade \r\nSamuel L. Jackson - Mister Senor Love Daddy \r\nMartin Lawrence - Cee \r\nJohn Savage - Clifton \r\nSteve White - Ahmad \r\nErik Koniger \r\nGinny Yang - Kim \r\nRoy Thomas \r\nSherwin Park - Korean Child \r\nTravell Lee Toulson - Hector \r\nTom Wright \r\nGwen McGee - Louise \r\nDiva Osorio - Carmen \r\nJoel Nagle - Sergeant \r\nRobi Reed \r\nStephen Park - Sonny \r\nDominic Marcus \r\nEric Payne \r\nAngel Ramirez - Stevie's Friends \r\nRick Aiello - Officer Long \r\nRichard Habersham - Eddie \r\nShawn Elliott - Puerto Rican Ice Man \r\nDavid Weinberg - Plain Clothes Detective \r\nNelson Vasquez - Stevie's Friends \r\nLeonard Thomas - Punchy \r\nFrank Vincent - Charlie \r\nLuis Ramos - Stevie \r\nChrista Rivers - Ella \r\nRoger Guenveur Smith - Smiley \r\nMiguel Sandoval - Officer Ponte \r\n","leadImageMedUrl":"http:\/\/distro-1.retrojunk.com\/secure\/31f31d500587d5db81fe0714296a806f8f3c128903abd1d9dd88156002fa607de668cc\/image\/fcf_802210c1df__22dcf0f4f3.jpg"}