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Do the Right Thing

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Film information
NameDo the Right Thing
Directed bySpike Lee
Produced byJon Kilik
Spike Lee
Monty Ross
Written bySpike Lee
StarringSpike Lee
Danny Aiello
Ossie Davis
Giancarlo Esposito
John Turturro
Music byBill Lee
CinematographyErnest Dickerson
Editing byBarry Alexander Brown
Studio40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dateFrance:
June 14, 1989
United Kingdom:
June 23, 1989
United States:
June 30, 1989
Running time120 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6,500,000
(estimated)
Gross revenue$37,295,445

Do the Right Thing

Album information
NameDo the Right Thing [Score]
TypeFilm
ArtistBill Lee
ReleasedDecember, 1988
RecordedDecember 12, 1988 - December 16, 1988
GenreFilm score
Length35:36
LabelColumbia Records
ProducerSpike Lee (exec.)

Do the Right Thing

Album information
NameDo the Right Thing [Soundtrack]
TypeSoundtrack
ArtistVarious Artists
ReleasedDecember, 1988
GenreSoundtrack
Length53:14
LabelMotown Records
ProducerGregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott (exec.), Ted Hopkins (exec.), Mark Kibble (exec.), Spike Lee (exec.), Johnny Mercer (exec.)

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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American film produced and directed by Spike Lee, who also wrote its screenplay and who is a featured actor in this film. Other members of it cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. This film was also notable from the fact that it was the feature film debut for Martin Lawrence, Christa Rivers, and Rosie Perez.

The film was a box office success, and it received numerous accolades and awards, including the Golden Globe Award to Mr. Lee for Best Original Screenplay. This film has also grown in stature over time, and in 1999 it was deemed to be "culturally significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress, and it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of just five films to have this honor in their first year of eligibility.

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Track listing
NoTitleMusicLength
1Mookie Goes Home1:21
2We Love Roll Call Y-All1:40
3Father to Son4:24
4Da Mayor Drinks His Beer1:03
5Delivery for Love Daddy1:08
6Riot1:08
7Magic, Eddie, Prince Ain't Niggers1:58
8Mookie [Septet]6:45
9How Long?3:43
10Mookie [Orchestra]6:32
11Da Mayor Loves Mother Sister1:23
12Tawana1:14
13Malcolm and Martin1:31
14Wake Up Finale1:46

Track listing
NoTitleMusicLength
1Fight the PowerPublic Enemy5:23
2My FantasyTeddy Riley, Guy4:57
3Party HeartyE.U.4:43
4Can't Stand ItSteel Pulse5:06
5Why Don't We TryKeith John3:35
6Feel So GoodPerri5:39
7Don't Shoot MeTake 64:08
8Hard to SayLori Perry, Gerald Alston3:21
9Prove to MePerri5:24
10Never Explain LoveAl Jarreau5:58
11Tu y Yo/We Love [Jingle]Rubén Blades5:12

Films directed by Spike Lee

1980sShe's Gotta Have It (1986) * School Daze (1988) * Do the Right Thing (1989)
1990sMo' Better Blues (1990) * Jungle Fever (1991) * Malcolm X (1992) * Crooklyn (1994) * Clockers (1995) * Girl 6 (1996) * Get on the Bus (1996) * He Got Game (1998) * Summer of Sam (1999)
2000sBamboozled (2000) * 25th Hour (2002) * She Hate Me (2004) * Inside Man (2006) * Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Documentaries4 Little Girls (1997) * Freak (1998) * Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Liberia (1998) * Pavarotti and Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo (1999) * The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) * A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) * The Concert for New York City (2001) * Jim Brown: All-American (2002) * When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) * Kobe Doin' Work (2009)
Short filmsJoe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) * Lumière and Company (1995) * Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) * All the Invisible Children (2005)
TelevisionSucker Free City (2004) * Miracle's Boys (2005) * "Shark" {Pilot} (2006)



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