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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.
.ACTORS
Danny Aiello - Sal
Spike Lee - Mookie
Richard Edson - Vito
John Turturro - Pino
Giancarlo Esposito - Buggin Out
Rosie Perez - Tina
Bill Nunn - Radio Raheem
Ossie Davis - Da Mayor
Ruby Dee - Mother Sister
Paul Benjamin - ML
Frankie R. Faison - Coconut Sid
Robin Harris - Sweet Dick Willie
Joie Lee - Jade
Samuel L. Jackson - Mister Senor Love Daddy
Martin Lawrence - Cee
John Savage - Clifton
Steve White - Ahmad
Erik Koniger
Ginny Yang - Kim
Roy Thomas
Sherwin Park - Korean Child
Travell Lee Toulson - Hector
Tom Wright
Gwen McGee - Louise
Diva Osorio - Carmen
Joel Nagle - Sergeant
Robi Reed
Stephen Park - Sonny
Dominic Marcus
Eric Payne
Angel Ramirez - Stevie's Friends
Rick Aiello - Officer Long
Richard Habersham - Eddie
Shawn Elliott - Puerto Rican Ice Man
David Weinberg - Plain Clothes Detective
Nelson Vasquez - Stevie's Friends
Leonard Thomas - Punchy
Frank Vincent - Charlie
Luis Ramos - Stevie
Christa Rivers - Ella
Roger Guenveur Smith - Smiley
Miguel Sandoval - Officer Ponte
.ACTORS
Danny Aiello - Sal
Spike Lee - Mookie
Richard Edson - Vito
John Turturro - Pino
Giancarlo Esposito - Buggin Out
Rosie Perez - Tina
Bill Nunn - Radio Raheem
Ossie Davis - Da Mayor
Ruby Dee - Mother Sister
Paul Benjamin - ML
Frankie R. Faison - Coconut Sid
Robin Harris - Sweet Dick Willie
Joie Lee - Jade
Samuel L. Jackson - Mister Senor Love Daddy
Martin Lawrence - Cee
John Savage - Clifton
Steve White - Ahmad
Erik Koniger
Ginny Yang - Kim
Roy Thomas
Sherwin Park - Korean Child
Travell Lee Toulson - Hector
Tom Wright
Gwen McGee - Louise
Diva Osorio - Carmen
Joel Nagle - Sergeant
Robi Reed
Stephen Park - Sonny
Dominic Marcus
Eric Payne
Angel Ramirez - Stevie's Friends
Rick Aiello - Officer Long
Richard Habersham - Eddie
Shawn Elliott - Puerto Rican Ice Man
David Weinberg - Plain Clothes Detective
Nelson Vasquez - Stevie's Friends
Leonard Thomas - Punchy
Frank Vincent - Charlie
Luis Ramos - Stevie
Christa Rivers - Ella
Roger Guenveur Smith - Smiley
Miguel Sandoval - Officer Ponte
