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She Hate Me

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She Hate Me (2004)

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Reviews Counted:97

Fresh:19

Rotten:78

Average Rating:3.9/10

Consensus: She Hate Me can't decide if it wants to be a commentary on corporate greed or a sex farce.

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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... 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. She Hate Me stars Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, Manchurian Candidate, Kerry Washington (The Human Stain, Bad Company), Ellen Barkin , Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Sarita Choudhury, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, Paula Jai Parker, Dania Ramirez, Q-Tip and John Turturro. A 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks Production, She Hate Me is written by Michael Genet and Spike Lee, based on a story by Genet. The film is directed by Spike Lee. Lee, Preston Holmes and Fernando Sulichin produced. Designer Brigitte Broch, Director of Photography Matty Libatique, Costume Designer Donna Berwick, Editor Barry Alexander Brown and Composer Terence Blanchard complete the creative team. -- © Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci

Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Sarita Choudhury, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, Paula Jai Parker, John Turturro, Dania Ramirez, Q-Tip

Director: Spike Lee

Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: Michael Genet, Spike Lee
Producer: Spike Lee, Preston L. Holmes, Fernando Sulichin
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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02/09/06
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Attractively cast and at times amusing, but it's undermined by a plot that doesn't make sense and plays like three-and- a-half genre movies fighting for screentime in one overlong one.

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09/25/04
Angie Errigo
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Empire Magazine
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If this is a subtle inversion of the sex wars it passed clear over my head as Anthony Mackie grunts his way through five ecstatic women a night

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09/23/04
James Christopher
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10/06/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

This film is so all over the place that Spike Lee drowns out his own argument and sabotages the story.

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09/19/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Fascinating from start to finish.

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09/14/04
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12/19/04
J. Robert Parks
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Looking Closer

Spike Lee is taking shotgun-blast aim at, well, everything--from corporate injustice to racial stereotypes to lesbian issues. And with his scattershot approach he misses all of his targets.

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07/30/04
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Might qualify as the most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film of [Lee's] career.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/20/04
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

[Spike Lee] is a genius who's never made a decent film.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
11/01/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

The mélange of plots, subplots, reveries, gags, cartoons, dirty bits, and hissy fits points to a work that is structurally modelled less on the classic narratives of cinema than on, say, a portion of Russian salad.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
08/01/04
Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane
New Yorker

Once your hero's crisis is whether or not to pity f@!# card-carrying bombshell Monica Bellucci, you might as well have unicorns and gnomes running around

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08/12/04
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

I hates this movie.

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08/20/04
Boo Allen
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

A bizarre stinker . . . it's too bad, for the sake of Lee's career, that this mistake of a movie didn't spontaneously combust on the first reel.

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10/09/04
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

A uniquely insane film which should be experienced and needs to be seen to be believed.

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08/13/04
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

I will not say that I liked it. I will say that like Bamboozled, it exasperates and resonates.

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08/19/04
Carrie Rickey
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