Product Details

• Actors: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown
• Directors: Spike Lee
• Writers: Spike Lee, Michael Genet
• Producers: Jamel Debbouze, Craig M. Spitzer, Fernando Sulichin, Jean Cazes, Preston L. Holmes
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 138 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006QAIG4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,939 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "She Hate Me" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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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

Product Description

When biotech exec Jack (Anthony Mackie 8 Mile) blows the whistle on his greedy drug-conglomerate bosses (Woody Harrelson Natural Born Killers and Ellen Barkin Sea of Love) over an insider-trading scandal he gets more than he bargained for. Once this playa is played he finds himself hitting rock bottom when an old flame Fatima (Kerry Washington Save the Last Dance) blows back into his life with the ultimate job offer: father her child no strings attached. Teaming up to turn the tables on corporate culture he sets up shop as a stud-for-hire at 10 G's a pop for a bevy of wealthy lesbians. When Jack delivers the goods even his ex's glamazon gal pals can't resist his considerable...charms. Torn between love and money Jack chases his American Dream all the way to the bank. But things heat up when Jack impregnates the Mafia daughter (Monica Bellucci The Matrix Reloaded) of a notorious boss (John Turturro Secret Window) triggering the FBI to expose Jack's cash-cow scheme.System Requirements:Running Time: 138 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396059542 Manufacturer No: 05954

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What could Spike Lee have been thinking?, February 17, 2005

By	M. J Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Sperminator!, December 28, 2005

By	Digibong! "The Good die young,but pricks live... (eternia) - See all my reviews

This movie is like 2 and a half hours long!!!
WHY?!?!?
It can't decide if it wanted to be a movie about a young black
professional male blowing the whistle on an "Enron like"
organization and himself caught in the middle of it,
or just being about a brother who was down on his luck
and due to frozen assets,etc FORCED into being
the "Sperminator" to a whole bunch of "biological-clockticking"
lesbians.

I kinda liked the second story better.
But at the same time this movie is a bit too unrealistic.
I am trying to understand why they think that
every other lesbian couple or individual WANTS
to have a child...let alone the "old fashioned way"
(by way of the male species that is)
They need to get those statistics right before putting
it out there like that.
Then to top it these lesbians are acting more like they
are Bi-sexual and enjoying themselves in the process,
no complaints or anything..it's like they WANTED to be
"turned out" by this guy.
And worse...they pay $10,000 for this when all they had
to do was get someone from around the way, buy him
2 chicken wings and a blue soda and boom! They would have
saved all the drama and trouble..and money.

There are a few celebrity appearances such as:
John Turturro,Q-Tip,Brian Dennehey,Spike Lee's sister,
Lonetta McKey,Jim BRown,Woody Harrelson,but they don't do
much for the script other than to make this movie seem
like it's not just another "hood" movie about a guy
skeezin' on woman.
It's like this was unncessarily long to accomodate the
"Enron-like" scandal plot and the "baby making machine"
plot..they should have made it one plot and save the time
and money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars HIghly Akward, June 14, 2006

By	mediafan - See all my reviews

To begin, I am relieved that neither Spike nor Joie are in front of the camera like usual. I will give him one star for his creativity. He always brings that to the movie. I will give him the other star for tackling such strong content. Another character in his favor. However, he loses me with the whole flow of the movie. It seemed to be "cut and pasted" . It doesn't settle down into a story line. The editing is chaotic, the thought pattern is muddled. So there's no chance to really indentify with or connect with the character as with the other movies. As a result, it made the film hard to follow and just a screen full of Spike Lee going wild. This was far below of that he is capable of. This seemed to be a rushed project with issues that could have made two good projects versus one confusing one.The only redeeming quality comes from the alluding in my opening statement, the fact that Spike himself wasn't in front of the camera.