Trailer here. (http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2004/shehateme_017840/shehateme_trlr_dl.mov)
Release date: July 30, 2004
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Jamel Debbouze, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Joie Lee, Lonette McKee, Michole Briana White, Paula Jai Parker, Savannah Haske, David Bennent, Q-Tip, Sarita Choudhury
Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: Michael Genet and Spike Lee
Premise: 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.
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That's a great cast.
Monica Bellucci and Woody Harrelson in a Spike Lee Joint... mmmmm.
I'll see it without hesitation. A new Spike Lee is always welcome in my book. Rare to see such a calm trailer, last time I felt so comfortable watching a trailer was Lost in Translation. Nice to see a concept as hilarious as this being toned down (at least the trailer gives that impression).
wow, this looks great. monica bellucci is just the cherry on top.
also, everytime i see John Turturro, i hear him say "You stole my story" in that southern accent. but then i think of him as Jesus and it's all groovy
i really cant stand spike lee
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One night stands with scorching hot lesbians -- how delectably unrealistic!
If someone pitched me a 'coorporate courtroom drama mixed with a sex comedy,' I'd be wary, but Spike Lee's name added to that mix will get me there opening day. The trailer looks funny and weird...it's hard to pin down. In the words of that diner lady in the Simpsons, "I like that!"
Also, any trailer that shows an ECU of sperm rushing headlong into a vaginal canal is a cool trailer.
Also, Q-tip looks like the new Giancarlo Esposito.
I still have to watch 25th Hour. But this sounds intriguing.
Definitely happy about this
Quote from: coffeebeetleI still have to watch 25th Hour.
Go now.
And for me, since 25th Hour, my motto has been, "New Spike Lee? Fine by me." I really need to kill my writers for that one, too.
Spike Lee is a little sexist for this kind of movie, but I'll see it for sure.
You know, this could have been a really interesting little movie if it wasn't so fucking long. Seriously, this should have been 100 minutes, tops. I could completely agree with Roger Ebert's against-the-grain review, but I can't get past how long it is. Ebert says it's never boring, and that's true on a scene by scene basis, but there are just so many scenes. Spike Lee shot himself in the foot in the editing room.
i've been thinking about going to see this, but the reviews have been so scathing for the most part i dont know if i can work up the enthusiasm.
this movie annoyed the fuck out of me, this is the first spike movie that ive hated
man I wanted to see this film but it came and gone already, was here for only a week. it didn't seem that good though becuase as much as I love Spike (as much as I love Wes Anderson), I never found his comedy to be that funny--they were offbeat and quirky sure, but never funny, and I always had problems with the way he treated women in his films as well. for a comedy about a guy sleeping with a lot of lesbians, I knew Spike probably wouldn't've fared too well. Still I'm sure I won't hate it as much as most critics though.
Is the kid from The Tin Drum in this?
is www.imdb.com not working?
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of She Hate Me for 1st February 2005 priced at $24.96 SRP.
When a rising exec becomes a whistleblower and gets fired, he turns the tables on corporate culture, setting up shop as a stud-for-hire by impregnating wealthy lesbians at $10,000 a pop. Mixing up race, sex and stereotypes as only he can, director Spike Lee shows why it's all about the Benjamins.
Features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen
English DD5.1 Surround
French, Portuguese and Spanish subtitles
Director Spike Lee's Commentary
7 Deleted Scenes
"She Hate Me: Behind the Scenes" featurette
Previews
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Aw, and it didn't even come to theatres here. Must've been really awful. Lee's becoming almost as hit-and-miss as Altman. Not that that's a bad thing.
damnit i thought this would've been like great.
Quote from: ©braddamnit i thought this would've been like great.
Are you saying that because you saw it and didn't like it or because everyone hated it?
nah i haven't seen it, but the trailer looked neato and i'm a spike fan, huge like.
yeah this was a definite misfire. too long, and too many elements underdeveloped that were only loosely connected (bush, watergate, nixon, enron, lesbians, racism, etc. etc. etc.) jeez, spike could you narrow it down a little for us? either the family, or the lesbian couple, or the corporate scandal could've been exised almost completely and you wouldn't have missed it, and it would've made this more focused. the tone was all over the place too, like i realize he didnt want the thing to be reality based but he didnt quite have a handle on the satire mixed with trying to pull our heartstrings. also, i didnt believe anthony mackie was that character at all at the beginning, only as the character loosened did he become more believable. his take on an 'uptight corporate' type was not very good. so, as gb said, watchable, i was never bored, but a wasted opportunity of interesting ideas from a filmmaker i would've hoped better from.
early prediction: jeremy blackman will love this movie if he ever sees it.
Quote from: themodernage02early prediction: jeremy blackman will love this movie if he ever sees it.
Excellent. I'll Netflix it immediately.
haha, pick up a few katherine hepburn movies while you're at it! :yabbse-wink:
I liked it. I didn't love it, but I liked it.
Quote from: themodernage02too long, and too many elements underdeveloped that were only loosely connected (bush, watergate, nixon, enron, lesbians, racism, etc. etc. etc.) jeez, spike could you narrow it down a little for us? either the family, or the lesbian couple, or the corporate scandal could've been exised almost completely and you wouldn't have missed it, and it would've made this more focused.
The lack of focus worked for me (doesn't it usually?). He could have made three or four powerful movies with what he had going here, but I think it worked as a kind of preachy collage of issues.
The all-over-the-place-ness did leave me cold (emotionally), maybe except for the father/son story. But maybe that's okay. It's a messy movie, but maybe that's okay. I can't tell.
It was supposed to be a "look what people will do for money" movie, but I don't think Jack did the impregnation thing for money. I really don't. He just wanted to be useful.
Quote from: themodernage02also, i didnt believe anthony mackie was that character at all at the beginning, only as the character loosened did he become more believable. his take on an 'uptight corporate' type was not very good.
I agree completely. He was terrible at being unlikeable... he never should have gone there.
I think Spike Lee could make great movies today if he only took them more seriously.
well, i'm glad i was wrong.
i liked this film . i have no problem with over the top stuff, like many people have branded this film as. there's much to love .. the tin drum guy, that sequence, woody, q-tip, jack's flat (by the way, does anyone knows who did those paintings that were hanging in his kitchen? the ones that had boys in them), the part where he's walking in ny and his clothes change, the SPOILER scene where they all kiss is hilarious END SPOILER, ossie ... the credits were classy until that tasteless three dollar bill, but i guess that was the point being that everytime there's a W reference the film turns nasty. i wish my name was spike.
i know i know, shelton bla bla
i forgot to mention my favorite part was the guy who played the cop in 25th hour who played the cop in this repeating his line of 'sheeeeeeeeeeeet.' in the exact same way! i couldnt believe it.
Yeah, I remembered that, too.
The girls didn't like it.
Oh. My. God.
a couple of really good moments in an otherwise muddled mess of a movie that feels like the making of a freshman at NYU who was given a few million dollars and a decent D.P.
i love spike, but maybe he does work
too fast. he needs to take a breath and really read over these scripts. he's so quick to start shooting, i mean, 25th hour was shot and edited and distributed in less than one year! spike had enough material in this one script to make his next four movies. he just needs to pull a malick and take his time, flesh out these scripts and...
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman...[take] them more seriously.