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Bookmark this pageShe's Gotta Have It (1986)
Director: Spike Lee
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Lee's first feature focuses around the attempts of Nola Darling (Johns), aware but not ashamed of her reputation as a good-time girl, to sort out the three steady men in her life with a view (maybe) to marriage: the sincere and caring Jamie (Hicks), the self-obsessed model Greer (Terrell), and the outrageous bicycle messenger Mars (Lee). Each lover, convinced that he is the solution to Nola's problem, makes his prospective pitch (to the girl and audience alike) in a series of painfully funny character vignettes. The action centres on Nola's spacious Brooklyn studio, where the men take it in turns to assassinate each other's characters, before gathering round Nola's Thanksgiving table to do it face-to-face. Structurally, it could be compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon for its subjective cross-examination of Nola's loves; but this delightful low-budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.Author: SGo
Cast & crew
Director: Spike Lee
Producer: Shelton J Lee
Cast: Tracy Camila Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Ray Dowell, Joie Lee full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 85 mins
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