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  • Actors: Reynaldo Rosales, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci
  • Directors: Spike Lee
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Hindi
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Feb 2005
  • Run Time: 133 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006JMPLM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,341 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

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Well-known for his ability to combine political and social issues with a poignant story, Spike Lee writes, directs, and produces SHE HATE ME. John Henry Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), an executive at a pharmaceutical company, blows the whistle on the company's CEO over an ethics issue, and is fired. Though he's out of work and has suffered a serious blow to his business reputation, his ex-girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington) enlists his help on a babymaking mission. She wants to get pregnant and so does her lesbian girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez). In fact, so do plenty of other lesbians, who Fatima invites into Jack's bedroom in droves, resulting in some very funny sex scenes. With a $10,000 price tag per dose of Jack's 'man milk'--cheaper than adoption and less mysterious than artificial insemination--Jack is making a bundle and keeping the lesbian mothers-to-be happy. However, his actions do catch up to him, and in a final court hearing about his corporate situation, his second job also becomes a major detractor from his credibility. Lee uses a smooth jazz score, scenic New York and Brooklyn photography, and a many of his favorite actors--John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Q-Tip--to make this thought-provoking and often surprising film work like a charm.

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2.0 out of 5 stars What could Spike Lee have been thinking?, 18 Feb 2005
By M. J Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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She Hate Me is pretty much a thematic mess. Poorly executed, overly long, with a narrative that is all over the place, the movie is probably one of the worst films to be released in recent years. Viewers will be severely mistaken if they start watching this movie thinking that it's going to be some smart, savvy corporate espionage thriller, because it's certainly not. Instead, She Hate Me is a strange and outlandish mixture of three odd movies in one: It's about a whistleblower, an Italian crime syndicate, and most bizarrely, it's a story about a man who makes money through impregnating lesbians.

A really good Anthony Mackie plays Jack Armstrong. Jack is an extremely ambitious corporate wiz kid, who works for a biotech corporation that is on the verge of releasing an AIDS vaccine. However, the FDA has summarily rejected the vaccine. Jack soon learns from a peculiar German scientist (David Bennett), who later suicides that some kind of shady Enron-like financial transactions have taken place, concerning a senior executive (Ellen Barkin) and the company C.E.O. (Woody Harrelson). Jack decides to blow the whistle, and consequently loses his job, and has his financial accounts frozen.

Determined to keep the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, Jack receives a visit from his gorgeous ex-fiancée(Kerry Washington) and her lesbian lover (Dania Ramirez), who offer him ten thousand dollars to get them pregnant. His talents as a lover and baby-maker begin to catch on, and soon women including the daughter of a mafia don, played by Monica Bellucci, are lining up to sample his talents. Strangely, although they're all lesbians, they seem to be enjoying the whole process, which when you think about it, is kind of insulting.

Interspersed with this sorry story is a tale of Watergate remembrances, some digs at George W. Bush, an attempt at showing procreation through animation, and a nonsensical subplot involving Jack's best friend as a sperm donor. There's a terrible monologue between Jack and his ex-fiancé as they talk about why they split up and question her sexual identity. There's also another dreadful scene where Jack visits and is lectured to by the mafia don (John Turturro), whose pretending he's in the Godfather movie.

It's hard to figure out what Spike Lee is trying to say in this movie. Maybe he feels that lesbianism is a myth, African-American men have too many children, and prostitution should be legal. Perhaps he is also saying that racism is institutionalized in the corporate world, and that business fraud is commonplace. There are lots of inane tirades that go on forever about white white-collar crime, racial double standards and parental responsibility. As She Hate Me slowly and endlessly unravels, it doesn't take long for the viewer to figure out that this is a terrible, disastrous hodgepodge of a film - view it at your own risk. Mike Leonard February 05.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Savage cutting could have saved the day!!!, 24 April 2006
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"She Hate Me" is a problematic and confused Motion Picture. Parts are engaging and humorous while others are poorly crafted and self-conscious. Firstly the film has no pace. This could easily have been corrected by cutting all the dream sequences, all the scenes featuring Q-Tip and all the Watergate sequences. This would have resulted in a more focused and compact film.

Why directly after the main protagonists discuss in detail a painful experience is it necessary to show a flashback of that exact moment? By doing so the film becomes too literal and nothing is left to the audience's imagination. The scenes concerning Watergate are embarrassing and very badly directed. The cutting room floor was screaming out for these scenes but Spike Lee left them in. Why? Does Spike Lee rate his work so highly that none of the footage shot can be cut?

The dialogue between Q-Tip and Anthony Mackie in their walk through the park is contrived and immature. Not for one moment does Anthony Mackie convince as a Vice President of a powerful drugs company. In fact this actor is completely miss cast. He does not convey any authority, intelligence or sexuality. Wesley Snipes could have provided all these qualities with ease.

I respect Spike Lee as a director but as this Motion Picture proves he needs to listen to a subjective opinion and act upon it, so his films can be less sprawling and more focused. This could so easily have been a very good film with some savage cutting.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Still worth a watch, 25 April 2008
As already mentioned, this film is all over the place, Doesn't quite ring true and is somewhat a male fantasy. Having said all of that there's a brilliant cast and the usual high quality cinematography that all Lee's films have. The Enron type scenes were handled in an 'ok' fashion, the only thing that made them feel funny was his side-line job. What are the chances of having two such careers? I don't know but truth is stranger than fiction. The beautiful lesbians lining up to be impregnated IS very much male fantasy but still works in a very comical way and does have some say into social issues in regard to how many people seem to be experimenting but still crave some kind of 'normal' family. Far from Lee's best work but is still worth a watch
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1.0 out of 5 stars A contender for the worst film ever made!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very misunderstood film
There's enough raw material in this film to be 3 separate 2-hour movies. The primary premise, a man being paid to impregnate a number of lesbians, is just the tip of the iceberg... Read more
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