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MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic sexuality/nudity, language and a scene of violence
Starring Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Reynaldo Rosales, Jamel Debbouze, and Brian Dennehy
When biotech executive Jack Armstrong (Mackie) gets fired and branded a whistle-blower, his desperation to make a living and the suggestion of a former girlfriend lead him into the baby-making business. Between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds life, all at once, becoming very complicated. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): | Comedy | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Spike Lee
Michael Genet (also story) |
| DIRECTED BY: | Spike Lee |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 1, 2005 Video: February 1, 2005 Theatrical: July 28, 2004 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 138 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Alisha gave it a9:
I love loved she hate me. I did get a little bored for a second but I mean what movie doesnt have a boring part in it. This movie has got to be the sexiest movie I have ever seen. Nothin I love better than to see two women gettin it on! Plot was great and entertaining! Forget what all these snoody critics are saying its not you're average hollywood movie and thats what makes it so great.
Francisca C. gave it a9:
I got it; I liked it. Movies are for entertainment and that I was. Comedies are comedy and an exaggertion of life. Two thumbs up.
Dan H. gave it a10:
I thought that this movie was brilliant. It was first and foremost, tremendously entertaining, which is why people watch movies anyway. Secondly, it was brilliantly absurd in a very self-absurd way. People write scathing reviews of this movie and it's logic and propose that Spike Lee has lost his mind, but honestly Spike Lee knows how absurd and illogical aspects of this movie are. Since I am not an eloquent and poignant writer, however, see Roger Ebert's review of this film (which is one of his best, proving once again that he may be the wisest man in America).
Kuumo D. gave it a0:
This was the worst movie yet that SPIKE LEE.. has made.. for one main reason.. He tried to go into on topic he truly knows nothing about it. Being a black lesbian. He made fun of .. and completely made the lesbian lifestyle a joke. First and foremost Lesbians don't sleep with me .. for enjoyment and the sure as hell don't become bi-sexual b/c there mate might be.. at the end Alex's character in a real world outcome would have left that twisted offer of having Fatima and Jack as lovers.. with two children..
p t gave it an8:
I got it. I enjoyed it although I didn't think the scenarios were realistic at all. I think Spike spoke volumns on so many things, do we always have to have an earnest depiction to make a point?
Jeff F. gave it a0:
What was spike lee thinking about?
Mark B. gave it a 7:
She hate it, he hate it, nearly everyone hate it, and I'm not completely sure why. Spike Lee's multibarreled satiric take on Enron, lesbianism, sperm donorship, the Bush administration and (not surprisingly) race relations in America has been slammed nearly totally across the board (note the Metacritic score) for being strident, shrill, self-contradictory, sexist and thematically confused, but keep in mind, folks, that it's Spike Lee we're dealing with, and therefore, what did you expect, anyway? The man is nothing if not thoroughly unpredictable (which is part of the fun of watching him), and it's a fact of life that for every perfectly disciplined, modulated film he makes (Do the Right Thing, Get on the Bus, 25th Hour), he's going to produce one that's completely and totally berserk (e.g. Summer of Sam or Bamboozled)...and it'll usually immediately follow one of the films in the former category that nearly everyone respects if not totally liking it. In substance, style and subject matter, Lee is nothing if not in your face; remember, this is the director who caused millions (OK, thousands) of moviegoers to complain to the theater projectionist because he deliberately filmed part of Crooklyn through a distorted lens in order to forcefully communicate its young heroine's alienation. Lee's biggest flaw is that of many writer/producer/directors, only maybe more so: he just doesn't know how or when to edit himself! Thus, in She Hate Me we have an incredibly poignant monologue (delivered by Jim Brown in his best screen performance EVER) about Frank Mills, the Black security guard who uncovered the Watergate burglary and whose life was subsequently ruined because of it...unnecessarily followed by a childish, garish reenactment featuring some guy in a Nixon Halloween mask! Warts and all, I found this tale of an honest but disgraced Black business exec (Anthony Mackie) forced by sudden unemployment and other circumstances to become a one-man stud service for lesbians who desire children to be frequently funny, touching and surprisingly evenhanded in its treatment of most of the characters. Having read several reviews before going in, I wasn't prepared to learn that ALL the movie's major women are multidimensional and have vulnerable or sympathetic qualities, including Ellen Barkin's foulmouthed, powersuited superior. Critics and moviegoers have accidentally or deliberately missed the point that Lee is making that Mackie's customers avail themselves of his service not only to get pregnant, but to give themselves permission to have a once in a lifetime heterosexual experience and satisfy their curiousity. (These sequences, capped with Look Who's Talking-style animation, provided me with some of the biggest, uh, belly laughs of this moviegoing year.) I may really be going out on a limb to state this, and Lee himself may not be especially thrilled should he ever read this, but on occasion this film reminded me of another (I think) unjustly maligned film, Richard Fleischer's uncompromising 1975 Deep South melodrama Mandingo, in which all Black men with certain physical characteristics are seen and treated by pre-Civil war society almost exclusively as either money-making or sexual objects; apparently, according to Lee, America hasn't progressed very much since then! Lots of tone shifts characterize this almost 2 1/2 hour movie; it's definitely at its weakest in the final reel, in which Lee, who has told Roger Ebert that he's not a Frank Capra fan, turns uncharacteristically Capraesque in a courtroom scene involving most of the major players--but this is followed by a wrapup that shows us yet ANOTHER completely unpredictable side of this bracingly, often admirably impossible-to-pigeonhole filmmaker. Who would've guessed that Spike Lee of all people could be such a romantic?
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