Do the Right Thing at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas

Do the Right Thing

part of the Hip Hop Movie Club Film Series, For the Love of Film Series & the Summer Classics Series

Palette & Pour Menu:

Venue Rules:

Reserve Free Tickets: https://www.artsquest.org/event/do-the-right-thing/

*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts available at box office

This screening is presented in 4K.

1989 | R | 2 hrs

Directed by: Spike Lee

Featuring: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson

Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of a cast of unforgettable characters—Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Mister Señor Love Daddy, Tina, Sweet Dick Willie, Buggin Out, Radio Raheem, Sal, Pino, Vito, and Lee’s Mookie among them—give way to heated confrontations as tensions rise along racial fault lines, ultimately exploding into violence. Punctuated by the anthemic refrain of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” Do the Right Thing is a landmark in American cinema, as politically and emotionally charged and as relevant now as when it first hit the big screen.