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Excelent Movie!

Gender: Drama/Comedy
Director: Spike Lee
Lengh: 155 minutos
Year: 1989
Country: United States
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216
DVD Rip
Video Codec: XviD
Video Bitrate: 678 Kbps
Audio Codec: MPEG1/2 L3
Audio Bitrate: 160 kbps 48 KHz
Resolution: 608 x 336
Aspect Ratio: 1.810
Widescreen (16x9)
Frame Rate: 25.000 FPS

Plot:
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.

The film contains several allusions to then-recent race-related violent acts.

In the scene in which Mookie shows frustration with his sister for getting too close to Sal, "Tawana told the truth!" is spray painted on the bricks in the rear of this shot, referring to the 1987 Tawana Brawley rape hoax. Towards the end of the film, at the peak of the riot that ensues after Radio Raheem's death, the gathered characters yell the name of Eleanor Bumpurs and begin to chant "HOWARD BEACH! HOWARD BEACH!" referring to the 1986 Howard Beach incident.

Awards and nominations

-1989 Academy Awards
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Danny Aiello (nominated)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – Spike Lee (nominated)

-1989 Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm – Spike Lee (nominated)

-1990 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director – Spike Lee (won)
Best Picture (won)
Best Supporting Actor – Danny Aiello (won)

-1990 Golden Globes
Best Director (Motion Picture) – Spike Lee (nominated)
Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture – Danny Aiello (nominated)
Best Screenplay (Motion Picture) – Spike Lee (nominated)

-1991 NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture – Ruby Dee (won)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Ossie Davis (won)

-1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director – Spike Lee (won)
Best Music – Bill Lee (won)
Best Picture (won)
Best Supporting Actor – Danny Aiello (won)

-1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematographer – Ernest R. Dickerson (won)

-AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies
The American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the American film industry voted it the 96th greatest film of all time in its 10th Anniversary Edition, 2007

-National Film Preservation Board
National Film Registry (1999)

-MTV Movie Awards
The Bucket of Excellence (lifetime achievement award, 2006)

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