Do the Right Thing [20th Anniversary Edition] [Blu-ray]

Director {|Spike Lee|} dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay ({|Samuel L. Jackson|}) spins the platters that matter; a convenience store owned by a Korean couple; and Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the only white-operated business in the neighborhood. Sal ({|Danny Aiello|}) serves up slices with his two sons, genial Vito ({|Richard Edson|}) and angry, racist Pino ({|John Turturro|}). Sal has one black employee, Mookie (Spike Lee), who wants to "get paid" but lacks ambition. His sister Jade ({|Joie Lee|}, Spike's sister), who has a greater sense of purpose and a "real" job, wants Mookie to start dealing with his responsibilities, most notably his son with girlfriend Tina ({|Rosie Perez|}). Two of Mookie's best friends are Radio Raheem ({|Bill Nunn|}), a monolith of a man who rarely speaks, preferring to blast {|Public Enemy|}'s rap song Fight The Power on his massive boom box; and Buggin' Out ({|Giancarlo Esposito|}), nicknamed for his coke-bottle glasses and habit of losing his cool. When Buggin' Out notes that Sal's "Wall of Fame," a photo gallery of famous Italian-Americans, includes no people of color, he eventually demands a neighborhood boycott, on a day when tensions are already running high, that incurs tragic consequences.