She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySpike Lee
Written bySpike Lee
Produced bySpike Lee[a]
Starring
CinematographyErnest Dickerson
Edited bySpike Lee
Music byBill Lee
Production
company
Distributed byIsland Pictures
Release date
  • August 8, 1986 (1986-08-08)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$175,000
Box office$7.1 million

She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Spike Lee in his feature-length directorial debut.[1] It stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, and Lee. The film follows a young woman who is dating three men and explores the feelings this arrangement provokes.

Filmed on a low budget of $175,000, it earned positive reviews and grossed $7.1 million, launching Lee's career.[2] Lee adapted the film into a Netflix series of the same name in 2017, and it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2019.


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  1. ^ Lee, Spike (1987). Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-64417-3.
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