She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Spike Lee
Written by	Spike Lee
Produced by	Spike Lee (credited as Shelton J. Lee)
Starring	Tracy Camilla Johns; Tommy Redmond Hicks; John Canada Terrell; Spike Lee; Raye Dowell;
Cinematography	Ernest Dickerson
Edited by	Spike Lee
Music by	Bill Lee
Production; company	40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Distributed by	Island Pictures
Release date	August 8, 1986;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$175,000
Box office	$7.1 million

She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Spike Lee.^[2] Filmed on a small budget and Lee's first feature-length film to be released, it earned positive reviews and launched Lee's career.

The film stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee himself in a supporting role. Also appearing are cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as a Queens, New York, resident and, in an early appearance, S. Epatha Merkerson as a doctor. The plot concerns a young woman (Johns) who is seeing three men, and the feelings this arrangement provokes.

In 2017, Lee adapted the film into a Netflix series.

In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Lee, Spike (1987). Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-64417-3.

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

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