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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 30097
Released: February 1, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A whistleblower now unemployed and desperate for cash accepts an offer to be a sperm donor for his ex-girlfriend, now a lesbian. He is soon inundated with offers from other lesbians while his former employer questions his ethics.
Genre: Feature Film Urban Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-JUN-2006
Media Type: DVD
Description of She Hate Me:
In a long and varied career, She Hate Me is easily one of Spike Lee's most unusual films. On the one hand, it's a drama. On the other, it's a comedy. Then there's the structure: a crazy quilt made up out of several different stories. Even the style is a patchwork incorporating animation and pseudo-documentary--in the vein of Lee's 1986 hit She's Gotta Have It. It all revolves around one John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (8 Mile's Anthony Mackie), a successful executive at a biotech company much like ImClone (the one that brought Martha Stewart down). When Jack blows the whistle and loses his job, ex-fiancée Fatima (Ray's Kerry Washington), who left him for another woman, offers the now-penniless Jack $10,000 to impregnate her. All goes well, so they set up business together, and he proceeds to impregnate countless gay women, including mafia princess Simona (Monica Bellucci). If there's one thing that keeps it all together, it's Mackie, who handles the many changes Lee puts him through with admirable aplomb. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
She Hate Me Reviews:
On the Fence 
2009-12-03 - This movie really tried to take on too many subjects. had Mr. Lee focuses on just the relationships it would have been more interesting. I do, however, give him props on showing a loving monogamous relationship between two beautiful women. I just don't think that lesbians who are really gay and committed to one another would want to have affairs with men, even if it is to have a baby. But that is to be expected when you have a straight man writing about a subject he has no insight about. To me, the movie begins when he introduces the main female characters (fatima and the Dominican woman). Their story held my attention. The rest of the movie just went all over the place. But it's worth a buy based on that storyline, just fast forward through the rest!
WORST Spike Lee Film EVER- I was so ashamed for him as I watched it 
2009-08-26 - Finally watched this on cable and was so glad I never paid money to see or rent this film. A weird offensive [...] unbelievable movie about an upper class Black businessman who is somehow forced through circumstance to sell his sperm to upper class ethnic/mostly Black lesbians who pay $10,000 a pop. REALLY?????? It was so DUMB. It was [...]- the sex scenes seemed to be for the male gaze and the lipstick lesbians all seemed to enjoy the mighty powerful expensive magical penis. I didn't get it at all. Also, there is this side story about the male lead being discriminated against in the workplace by The Man and evil corrupt Big Business preventing a cure for AIDs. I'M NOT KIDDING. This movie is ridiculous. An embarassment. What is the message? What is the purpose? Who was the target audience? What exactly was supposed to be entertaining? A tawdry mess of a story. Devoid of any soul. If there was a moral or lesson, it was lost because the main character and all the other characters were so hopelessly flawed and unattractive- whenever they stopped screwing around to pontificate, I just didn't care. And most of what they said just didn't make sense anyway. I love you Spike but this film is horrible. Spike Lee's films usually have depth and "authentic"/realistic characters BUT NOT THIS TIME. It was almost like Spike knew it because everybody was weirdly "fake" pretty/glamorous looking. All style, NO substance. Even the soundtrack sucked!!!!!
Not everyone likes fusion jazz.
2009-07-19 - I've always had a great deal of admiration for Spike Lee as a filmmaker even if I haven't always found his films enjoyable. Over nearly three decades of direction, he has proven to be an enigma, willing to stretch and take risks in selection of subject matter, often bringing attention to issues related to ethnicity, social responsibility, cultural distinctiveness and self-reflexivity among others, in a direct periodically controversial manner. Conversely, his directorial style, originally acclaimed as inventive and edgy has fallen into predictability. There are signature devices like kaleidoscopic shots, frame capture and repetition, or overhead perspective where immediately the viewer recognizes the film as a Spike Lee joint.
While at first, I didn't find She Hate Me to be particularly successful in either the dramatic segments or attempts at comedic release as in both instances the scenes seemed over-worked, those factors did not make the movie unwatchable and may have been the result of familiarity with thematic paths Lee has examined so often in previous films. I believe the emphasis on lesbianism is a new hook - for Lee anyway - but the underlying message here that self-awareness is often amorphous and in far too many situations personal values are sublimated to capitalistic aspirations, these concepts are recurrent subjects in many of his films. In this outing the sub-plots, most of which were satirical treatments of conventional views, are multifaceted but so numerable that for some viewers the film may appear to lack cohesiveness. Lee also becomes heavy-handed with what is obviously personal commentary on some issues like corporate excesses and social responsibility but with those concepts under examination in the same space he uses to decry parochialism in society by presenting a range of stereotypical characterizations he risks confusing a portion of his audience and offending another.
She Hate Me 
2009-03-30 - CD and jacket in excellent condition. I was very pleased with the speedy delivery of product. The movie was too funny for words. Plus, I enjoyed the sexy cast.
HE HATE ME (Spike Lee, that is) 
2009-03-26 - I generally dig Spike's films. Bamboozled is a favorite film of mine,
BUT to say Spike is way off with me on this one would be an understatement. I think Spike Lee could have made 2 really interesting films, but instead shoved it all into one called, She Hate Me.
I title this review HE HATE ME because it was a huge downer to see a guy who has made a great artistic impact to the "AA" (African American)
community be so wrong when it came to the motivations of lesbians. The portrayal of lesbians was disgustingly off. He basically falsely stereotypes lesbians in the way he is probably against people falsely stereotyping black people.
Not only that, but what this story was about was never decided. That's
fine, I guess, but if the movie is about corporate fraud--okay...or if
it is about being a father to 20 or so lesbian women's children--that's okay, too, but the story was a mess. If there was any particular message, it was diluted by too much. Too much movie about too much equals ...huh? What the ...was this movie.
I have the abilty to see art where others often do not, and I am very rarely critical of films in general. However, this movie was off.
