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She's Gotta Have It

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She's Gotta Have It
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R,1hr 25min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Release:
1986
Director:
Spike Lee
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell  ...more
Synopsis: Spike Lee's breakthrough independent feature, shot in fifteen days on a budget of $175,000, ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American independent film movement of the 1980s. It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in the representation of blacks in American cinema, depicting men and women of color not as pimps and whores, but as intelligent, upscale urbanites. Lee's slight tale, which carries much psychological and historical ... Full Synopsis
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Andrea LeVasseur, AMG Review
An excellent debut by any standard, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It was part of the American independent film boom in the mid-'80s. Made on a low budget and premiered at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival,, the film is a freshly entertaining, witty romantic comedy set in a lived-in Brooklyn neighborhood featuring a cast of unknown, young black actors. Admittedly, though she has a striking physical presence, ... Full Review
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Tracy Camilla Johns
Nola Darling
Tommy Redmond Hicks
Jamie Overstreet
John Canada Terrell
Greer Childs
Spike Lee
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