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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 15705
Released: February 1, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When biotech exec Jack (Anthony Mackie 8 Mile) blows the whistle on his greedy drug-conglomerate bosses (Woody Harrelson Natural Born Killers and Ellen Barkin Sea of Love) over an insider-trading scandal he gets more than he bargained for. Once this playa is played he finds himself hitting rock bottom when an old flame Fatima (Kerry Washington Save the Last Dance) blows back into his life with the ultimate job offer: father her child no strings attached. Teaming up to turn the tables on corporate culture he sets up shop as a stud-for-hire at 10 G's a pop for a bevy of wealthy lesbians. When Jack delivers the goods even his ex's glamazon gal pals can't resist his considerable...charms. Torn between love and money Jack chases his American Dream all the way to the bank. But things heat up when Jack impregnates the Mafia daughter (Monica Bellucci The Matrix Reloaded) of a notorious boss (John Turturro Secret Window) triggering the FBI to expose Jack's cash-cow scheme.System Requirements:Running Time: 138 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396059542 Manufacturer No: 05954
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:
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.
She Hates Him, I Love It, word keeps on spinning 
2009-01-11 - This movie was surprisingly entertaining. The film had a few good laughs sprinkled throughout, and there was even an attempt to teach the audience a moral. I'm a fan of Spike Lee, and that alone was enough to get me to buy the movie. Yet, with Spike's great creativity you also experience Spike's personal biases and opinions. To keep from spoiling the plot for those of you who havent watched it yet, I'll just simply say the ending wasnt as realistic as one would expect it to be. Also, this is definitely not a movie for kids. With that said I would advise any adults with an open mind and an equally liberal sense of humor to check out the film.
