Title Do the Right Thing Overview On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Tagline It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can... Genres Drama Keywords black people, italo-american, police brutality, sun glasses, culture clash, street war, heat, restaurant critic, radio transmission, punk, chaos, police operation, pizzeria, pizza, money, racism, hip hop culture Production Companies Universal Pictures, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 120 Release Year 1989
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 37 million USD