Incendiary heat works as a description of this 1989 Spike Lee movie just as fittingly. Lee caught lots of attention and adulation, deservedly, for his movie about increasing racial tensions in a Brooklyn neighborhood during a brutally hot summer. He also plays Mookie, in a funny and tense film that also stars Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Rube Dee, and future stars Giancarlo Esposito and John Turturro.