Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee (1989, 120 min.).  Portraying the diversity of NYC through three small Brooklyn businesses: a storefront radio station, a convenience store, and Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the only white-operated business in the neighborhood. Sal has one black employee, Mookie (Spike Lee), who wants to make a living, but lacks ambition. When one of Mookie’s friends notes that Sal's "Wall of Fame"—a photo gallery of famous Italian-Americans—excludes people of color, Mookie demands a neighborhood boycott. As tensions and temperatures are already running high, the boycott has tragic consequences. Lee’s film demonstrates how people and their interactions ultimately define a city.