‘Do the Right Thing’ premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and there was a lot of talk about it leading up to its June 30 US release, it grossed 3.5 million US dollars on its opening weekend, but this film was never meant to be a box office hit. The story follows a (mostly African American) neighbourhood in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year. 25-year-old Mookie (played by Spike Lee) works as a delivery boy at ‘Sal’s’, the local pizzeria, a pizzeria owned and run by Italians. Buggin’ Out is the guy that always speaks his mind, he sees that Sal only has Italian American people on his wall of fame and he confronts Sal about it. He tells everyone around the neighbourhood to boycott ‘Sal’s’, but no one listens everyone ‘grew up on ‘Sal’s’’ only two residents agree to boycott the pizzeria with Buggin’ Out, Slimily, a disabled man who sells pictures of MLK and Malcolm X and Radio Raheem, a big guy who carries a boom box around blasting Public Enemy. There is racial tension in the air and it all comes to blows when Sal gets into a confrontation with Radio Raheem about his music, cops are called and the whole neighbourhood is watching when the police strangle Radio Raheem to death. The neighbourhood has a speechless feeling which turns in to hate, Mookie throws a trash can threw the window of Sal’s Pizzeria, everyone on the street starts trashing the store and it eventually burns down. The next morning, Mookie talks to Sal out the front of the burnt down pizzeria, they seem to reconcile. ‘Do the Right Thing’ was a commercial and critical success, it is known as one of greatest films ever, the AFI ranked it at 96 on the 10th-anniversary list of the 100 best films, veteran critic Roger Ebert ranked it as the 4th best film of the 80s.