She Hate Me
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| Directed by | Spike Lee |
| Produced by | Spike Lee Preston Holmes Fernando Sulichin |
| Screenplay by |
Michael Genet Spike Lee |
| Story by | Michael Genet |
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Anthony Mackie Kerry Washington Ellen Barkin Monica Bellucci Jim Brown Jamel Debbouze Brian Dennehy Woody Harrelson Bai Ling Q-Tip Dania Ramirez John Turturro |
| Music by | Terence Blanchard |
| Cinematography | Matthew Libatique |
| Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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138 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $1,522,377 |
She Hate Me is a 2004 independent comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling and John Turturro.
The film garnered controversy, and, as with many of Lee's films, touches on comedy, drama, and politics. Unlike many prior works, Spike Lee does not have an acting credit in this film.
The film was shot mostly on location in New York City, including each of the city's five boroughs. It was nominated for various awards (see below), but did not win. She Hate Me was released in July 2004 and grossed almost half a million dollars at the box office in limited release, with overall revenues of around $1.5 million. The shooting budget was estimated at $8 million.
John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) is a financially successful and upwardly mobile executive at a biotechnology firm who, following the suicide of a colleague, Dr. Herman Schiller, is falsely accused of securities fraud by his superior, Leland Powell (Woody Harrelson). Armstrong's assets are frozen, and he finds himself unable to maintain his quality of life.
In order to make ends meet, he becomes a sperm donor, initially by acquiescing to the desires of Fatima Goodrich (Kerry Washington), his ex-fiancée who came out as a lesbian and now wants a child. Although there is still unresolved bitterness and tension between them over Armstrong and Goodrich's prior relationship, she and her girlfriend, Alex Guerrero (Dania Ramirez), offer him a substantial sum of money to impregnate them both. This leads to Goodrich goading Armstrong into establishing a business in which groups of lesbians come over to his house and pay him $10,000 each to have sex with them in order to become pregnant.
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