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She Hate Me (2004)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:19
Rotten:78
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: She Hate Me can't decide if it wants to be a commentary on corporate greed or a sex farce.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong graphic sexuality/nudity, language and a scene of violence
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $81,367
Synopsis: Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the... Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make "easy" money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a tryst. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated. She Hate Me stars Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, Manchurian Candidate, Kerry Washington (The Human Stain, Bad Company), Ellen Barkin , Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Sarita Choudhury, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, Paula Jai Parker, Dania Ramirez, Q-Tip and John Turturro. A 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks Production, She Hate Me is written by Michael Genet and Spike Lee, based on a story by Genet. The film is directed by Spike Lee. Lee, Preston Holmes and Fernando Sulichin produced. Designer Brigitte Broch, Director of Photography Matty Libatique, Costume Designer Donna Berwick, Editor Barry Alexander Brown and Composer Terence Blanchard complete the creative team. -- © Sony Pictures Classics [More]
Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci
Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Sarita Choudhury, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, Paula Jai Parker, John Turturro, Dania Ramirez, Q-Tip
Director: Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: Michael Genet, Spike Lee
Producer: Spike Lee, Preston L. Holmes, Fernando Sulichin
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
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Reviews for She Hate Me
This intensely topical satire tackles a wide range of important issues, from corporate whistle-blowing to the toll sexual license takes on stable family structures.
If you're truly adventurous in your movie-going and fed up with movies that play by the numbers, play it safe and come with audience-fawning reassurances, then She Hate Me just might be the harsh cinematic tonic you crave.
When it comes to social issues, Lee is fiercely, admirably activist, but when it comes to sex, he plays into stereotypes and myths that are all the more easily reinforced because they occur in a raucously comic context.
Watching it is like listening in on a heated debate amongst five people about various issues where all of them are talking at once and no one is stopping for a breath.
Fun to watch and fun to think about later; it's chockful of provocative statements about corporate morality, sexual hypocrisy and what's wrong about both today.
The shards of this film have more audacity and intelligence than most of what is out there and its failures are more interesting to ponder than most films' successes.
A reminder that Spike Lee is one of our great American filmmakers, unafraid to address, directly and artfully, contemporary issues in a context of national history.
Shot in a fast 26 days, the film has an off-the-cuff feel which makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in polish.
She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns.
More often than not, the sheer originality and ambition of the project carry pic, which is further bolstered by its superb ensemble cast.
Spike Lee is taking shotgun-blast aim at, well, everything--from corporate injustice to racial stereotypes to lesbian issues. And with his scattershot approach he misses all of his targets.
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