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‘She’s Gotta Have It’: Now Get It on DVD

  • 1/14/08 at 4:15 PM

Twenty-two years later, Spike Lee’s sweaty indie sex comedy has finally hit video. Not all of it has aged well: Tracy Camilla Johns as the film’s romanticized, oversexed man-juggler is all wrapped up in Lee’s horny male gaze. But what a gaze! And one not just trained on naked young women, but Brooklyn streets, authentically tiny apartments, and one goofy little shrimp with a rickety bike. This wasn’t just Lee’s debut, remember, but the birth of Lee as Mars “Is-it-the-shoes?” Blackmon, the guy who really paid for the filmmaker’s next several indies.

She's Gotta Have it

MGM Home Entertainment
On sale Jan. 15
$19.98

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