Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer while everyone tries to cope with the heat. Spike Lee received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay. Cast includes Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Richard Edson. Inducted in 1999 into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry for cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.

R, 120 min., 1989. Closed captions (CC) in English.