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About
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Theatrical
Jul 21, 1989
Digital
Oct 12, 2017
Box Office
$37.3M
Budget
$6.5M
Return
5.7x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 18, 1995
Theaters
1
Director
Spike Lee
Writer
Spike Lee
Producers
Spike Lee, Jon Kilik, Monty Ross
Music
Bill Lee
Studio
Universal Pictures, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
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Quotes
See all →Morning Conversations and Reflections on Life
Mother-Sister
Good morning.
Da Mayor
Is it a good morning?
Mother-Sister
Yes, indeed. You almost got yourself killed last night.
Da Mayor
I've done that before. Where did you sleep?
Mother-Sister
I didn't.
Da Mayor
Hope the block is still standing.
Mother-Sister
We're still standing.
Demand for Representation in Public Spaces
Sal
What'd I tell you about that noise?
Buggin Out
What'd I tell you about them pictures?
Sal
What the fuck, are you deaf?
Buggin Out
No! Are you? FUCK YOU! We want some black people on that motherfucking Wall of Fame now!
Mookie
We're trying to go fucking home! We've been here all fucking day, Buggin Out!
Sal
Turn that jungle music off! We ain't in Africa!
Buggin Out
Why it got to be about jungle music? Why it got to be about Africa? It's about them fucking pictures!
Sal
It's about turning that shit off and getting the fuck out of my place!
Racial Insults and Tensions Escalate in Dialogue
Mookie
You dago, wop, guinea, garlic breath, pizza slinging, spaghetti bending, Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, non-singing motherfucker.
Pino
You gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, three-hundred-sixty-degree basketball dunking, titsun, spade, mulignan. Take your fucking pizza piece and go the fuck back to Africa.
Stevie
You little slanty eyed, me-no-speaky-American, own-every-fruit-and-vegetable-stand-in-New-York, bullshit, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Summer Olympic 88, Korean kickboxing son-of-a-bitch.
Officer Long
You Goya bean eating, fifteen-in-a-car, thirty-in-an-apartment, pointed shoes, red wearing, Menudo, mira-mira Puerto Rican cocksucker. Yeah, you!
Sonny
It's cheap! I got a good price for you, Mayor Koch, "How-I'm-doing?", chocolate egg cream drinking, bagel and lox, B'nai B'rith, Jew asshole.
Mister Señor Love Daddy
Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!
Favorite Icons in Conversation
Mookie
Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
Pino
].
[[Magic Johnson]
Mookie
And who's your favorite movie star?
Pino
].
[[Eddie Murphy]
Mookie
And who's your favorite rock star?
Mookie
]. You're a Prince freak.
[[Prince (musician)|Prince]
Pino
Boss. ].
[[Bruce Springsteen|Bruce]
Mookie
Prince.
Cast
Full credits →D
Danny Aiello
Sal
O
Ossie Davis
Da Mayor
R
Ruby Dee
Mother Sister
R
Richard Edson
Vito
G
Giancarlo Esposito
Buggin Out
S
Spike Lee
Mookie
B
Bill Nunn
Radio Raheem
John Turturro
Pino
P
Paul Benjamin
ML
F
Frankie Faison
Coconut Sid
R
Robin Harris
Sweet Dick Willie
J
Joie Lee
Jade
M
Miguel Sandoval
Officer Ponte
R
Rick Aiello
Officer Long
J
John Savage
Clifton
Samuel L. Jackson
Mister Señor Love Daddy
R
Rosie Perez
Tina
R
Roger Guenveur Smith
Smiley
S
Steve White
Ahmad
Martin Lawrence
Cee
