In this special bonus episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989, we’re talking about one of the year’s most acclaimed and influential movies, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. Written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Bill Nunn and Rosie Perez, Do the Right Thing premiered at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for two Oscars.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/do-the-right-thing-1989), Desson Thomson in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/dotherightthingrhowe_a0b222.htm), and Peter Travers in Rolling Stone (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/do-the-right-thing-88272/).

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