Do the Right Thing
Widely respected film critic Roger Ebert considered this picture to be the year's most important film, later including it in his prestigious The Great Movies list. However, the film – written by Lee himself in just two weeks – also triggered incomprehension, hardly surprising mainly with a white audience. This greatly bugged Lee, who called these comments racist.
On a sweltering hot summer day in Brooklyn, tensions rise between Italian-American Sal Fragione and his sons on the one hand and neighbourhood's black residents on the other. It all starts with Sal's refusal to put up pictures of black celebrities on his pizzeria’s wall. Starring Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis and John Turturro, as well as Spike Lee himself as Mookie.