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Do the right thing / Universal ; a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee.
LIBRA DVD 009 379 disc 1-2 + pamphlet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 97.
- Criterion collection ; 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Drama.
- Race relations.
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet ([8] pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC ; Dolby digital surround ; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever, with the death of a young black man and the ensuing sequence of tensions and events.
- Participant:
- Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro.
- Credits:
- Photography, Ernest Dickerson ; original music score, Bill Lee ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- DVD release of the 1989 motion picture.
- "A Spike Lee joint".
- Special features: commentary by Spike Lee ; documentary The Making of Do the Right Thing ; Fight the Power video (Public Enemy) ; interviews ; storyboards ; theatrical trailer and TV spots.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 155940910X
- OCLC:
- 46335414
- Publisher Number:
- 715515011228
- CC1561D Criterion Collection
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