Spike Lee jumped from film school to the big time with this low-budget, extremely sexy comic drama about a life-embracing woman juggling three very different lovers. On one level, this film explores Brooklyn’s African-American subculture with an intimacy seldom seen before. On another, any adult who isn’t saving themselves for marriage can identify with what Nola Darling and her three boyfriends go through. If She’s Gotta Have It hadn’t launched Spike Lee’s career as a director, it would have established him as a comic character actor; his kookie Mars (”Please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby, baby, please) Blackmon steals the film.
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