Anthony Mackie, Brian Dennehy, Ellen Barkin

Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission...( read more  read more... ). Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman--and now a lesbian--offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, 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 try. 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 security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.

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R, 2 hrs. 18 min.

Directed by: Spike Lee

Release Date: July 28, 2004

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DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005

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  • July 28, 2008
    Spike Lee is aiming for too many things here, in some is a hit, in others are a miss. The first half builds up around the usual relationships stuff, then the second half forgets about the first and goes into a socio-political-commentary rampage. Also the movie depends on just wa...( read more)y too many wishifull thinking and "happy coincidences" to work properly and be convincing. If only Spike cut it off the political stuff, his movies would be actually a lot better. John Turturo's character, and all his dialogues and scenes were like if Spike was doing a parody of Do the Right Thing.
  • July 10, 2008
    Probably Spike Lee's weakest film. I found it clever and funny but it can be disrespectful at points
  • August 2, 2007
    It was um...wild, lol...not really a fan of anthony mackie...but kerry washington was good
  • June 12, 2007
    As a director Spike Lee is one of the best filmmakers of our time but when a Spike Lee joint is great you have a masterpiece (25th Hour, Malcom X and one of my favourite films Do The Right Thing.) but when he doesn't create a classic you have one horrible movie (Girl 6). Sadily t...( read more)his movie is bad Spike Lee. This may quite be the worst film of his career. The actors seem to be just as confused what type of film this is and as were is 1986 classic She's Gotta Have It was intellingent and entertaining this film at times seem to have been directed by Micheal Bay in a arthouse period or just given to a inmature 12 year old to make his dream movie. If you have to judge Spike Lee on 1 movie please don't make it this one.
  • February 8, 2007
    yo this is a good fuckin movie. awesome story, lucky fuckin bastard livin a fuckin wicked life!
  • August 11, 2009
    A smug, crude, angry, not funny "satire" wanna be that plays like a late night soft core porno flick with political commentary sprawling every which way in that 2nd act. Oh, the sex scenes are funny though, but they play like Meg Ryan's "I'll have what she's having" scene in When...( read more) Harry met Sally.
  • February 9, 2009
    HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT.
    The 1st half of the movie is good...the second horrible!
  • December 31, 2008
    I will forgive thee Spike.Just don't give me an Inside Man sequel or an ambitious-anti-yuppie-project that includes rivers of tedious blockhead performances and wooden outcomes,oh,and judicial soliloquies.It's not about the Benjamins,still,I dare you simplify once more the corpor...( read more)al travesties and I will start believing in God!
  • October 25, 2008
    Not Spike's finest hour, I'm afraid.
  • October 20, 2008
    This works...not that highly recommended tho...

Critic Reviews


August 20, 2004
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Spike Lee's She Hate Me is about as awful as a film can be without being the ultimate awful, which is boring. full review

August 13, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Lee should know better -- he's too talented to be serving up this kind of silliness, and so are his actors. full review

August 13, 2004
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Easily Lee's most disorganized movie, She Hate Me is also one of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory. full review

August 6, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns. full review

August 1, 2004
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

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 ... full review

July 28, 2004
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

When a Spike Lee film doesn't fly, it sinks like a stone. This one is Gibraltar. full review

July 24, 2004
Nick Schager, Filmcritic.com

maybe She Hate Me's title does make sense - as foreshadowing for the reaction it'll receive from real-world lesbians full review

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