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La Haine
Why this pick
Like Do the Right Thing, it traps volatile racial and social tensions within a single escalating day, using urgent street-level energy and an intimate neighborhood viewpoint.
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MOVIE1989 2h 0m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, hate and bigotry between a Black family and an Italian family smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Danny Aiello
Sal
Ossie Davis
Da Mayor
Ruby Dee
Mother Sister
Spike Lee
Mookie
John Turturro
Pino
Paul Benjamin
ML
Robin Harris
Sweet Dick Willie
Joie Lee
Jade