Do The Right Thing (1989)

Duration: 1'51'03''

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Synopsis

An uncompromising comedy about the racial tensions surrounding a white-owned pizzeria in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer and the violence that eventually erupts.

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