She Hate Me

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

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.

[matt35mm]

That's a great cast.

Monica Bellucci and Woody Harrelson in a Spike Lee Joint... mmmmm.

[Just Withnail]

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).

[El Duderino]

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

[cowboykurtis]

i really cant stand spike lee

[picolas]

He Hate He

[MacGuffin]

He Hate Lee

[Ghostboy]

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.

[coffeebeetle]

I still have to watch 25th Hour.  But this sounds intriguing.

[SiliasRuby]

Definitely happy about this

[ono]

I 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.

[RegularKarate]

Spike Lee is a little sexist for this kind of movie, but I'll see it for sure.

[Ghostboy]

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.

[modage]

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.

[Alethia]

this movie annoyed the fuck out of me, this is the first spike movie that ive hated