Do The Right Thing
A Fresh Perspectives Film Screening
Do The Right Thing / 1989 / 2hrs / Rated 18
It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can...
Over the course of the hottest day of the year in New York City, a pizza delivery boy navigates through racial, generational, and class conflicts as tensions intensify and reach their boiling point around a pizza joint in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
Spike Lee's polemical masterpiece is a dissection on humanity, told through comedy and tragedy. The compelling characters, dialogue, and vignettes provide insightful storytelling which has lasting power and relevancy.
This project is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK
“A bold expression of love and frustration and care and anger that is so vivid and expressive it feels like it exists in the here and now.”
