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Do the Right Thing

Summary: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Release Date: July 21, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, CBS, The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Peacock, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 27,545,445

International: $ 9,750,000

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