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She Hate Me

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She Hate Me (2004)

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Reviews Counted:35

Fresh:7

Rotten:28

Average Rating:3.8/10

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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10/19/04
Arizona Republic
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[Lee's] most muddled message movie to date.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
09/03/04
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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A misshapen and sometimes sorry affair that aims for satire, without always being clear about what it's attempting to satirize.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
09/03/04
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Lee presumably had two ideas, one an exposé of pharmaceutical greed, the other a sex comedy: then he decided that neither one would make a film in itself and came up with the lame idea of combining them.

Full Review Source: New Republic | comment Comment
08/28/04
Stanley Kauffmann
Stanley Kauffmann
New Republic
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Two movies mashed together.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
08/26/04
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Spike Lee's She Hate Me is about as awful as a film can be without being the ultimate awful, which is boring.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/20/04
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Scattered, clumsily ambitious, sexist, amateurish and just plain dumb, She Hate Me is a bad film, most likely the worst film Spike Lee has ever made.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
08/20/04
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Might qualify as the most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film of [Lee's] career.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/20/04
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Sheer agony to sit through.

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08/20/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's not only unfathomable and borderline offensive, it's never-ending, leaving its bewildered and battered audience in the dark for well over two hours.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
08/20/04
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Finally, a movie that can vie with Gigli as the worst feature of the new millennium.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
08/19/04
Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Maddening, invigorating, ridiculous, hilarious and messier than a rack of ribs without a napkin.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
08/19/04
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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It's a muddled, overlong, politically incorrect satire that goes wrong in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin dismantling the thing.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
08/19/04
Glenn Lovell
Glenn Lovell
San Jose Mercury News
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I will not say that I liked it. I will say that like Bamboozled, it exasperates and resonates.

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08/19/04
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Within its messy framework there's a lot to like about She Hate Me.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/13/04
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Easily Lee's most disorganized movie, She Hate Me is also one of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/13/04
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Lee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/07/04
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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For all his irreverence, Lee still seems uncertain how to convey deep, adult feeling without seeming obligated to feel.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/06/04
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
08/06/04
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