Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing1989

Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 120 minutes

Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is… more »



Mother Sister:
Hey, you old drunk, what did I tell you about drinking in front of my stoop? Move on, you're blocking my view. You are ugly enough, don't stare at me, the Evil Eye doesn't work on me.

Da Mayor:
Mother Sister, you've been talkin' about me for 18 years. What have I ever done to you?

Mother Sister:
You a drunk fool!

Da Mayor:
Besides that? Da Mayor don't bother nobody and nobody no bother Da Mayor but you. The Man just tends to his own business, I love everybody, I even love you.

Mother Sister:
Hold your tongue, you don't have that much love!

Da Mayor:
One day you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice, at least civil.

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