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* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[CasanovaWannabe hilariously bad pick-up lines]]. Also the scene of Greer, anticipating intercourse with Nola, taking a ridiculously long time to undress as he slowly and neatly removes each garment, folds it, and sets it aside.

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Also the scene of Greer, anticipating intercourse with Nola, taking a ridiculously long time to undress as he slowly and neatly removes each garment, folds it, and sets it aside.
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* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[CasanovaWannabe hilariously bad pick-up lines]].

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* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[CasanovaWannabe hilariously bad pick-up lines]]. Also the scene of Greer, anticipating intercourse with Nola, taking a ridiculously long time to undress as he slowly and neatly removes each garment, folds it, and sets it aside.
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* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] [[CasanovaWannabe pick-up lines]].

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* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] [[CasanovaWannabe hilariously bad pick-up lines]].
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* MrFanservice: Jamie is a handsome man, whose muscular torso's shown frequently while having sex with Nola.


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* NoFourthWall: Nola and other characters to a lesser degree address the audience directly multiple times.
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* MinimalistCast: Only six characters are in two or more scenes.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Nola is seeing three men at the same time while the events of the film occur, causing most of its drama. At the end she has tried and failed to have a monogamous relationship dating Jamie. An ex-roommate of hers says they stopped living together as she grew annoyed at how many men Nola had over all the time.

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* ReallyGetsAround: Nola is seeing three men at the same time while the events of the film occur, causing most of its drama. At [[spoiler:At the end she has tried and failed to have a monogamous relationship dating Jamie. Jamie.]] An ex-roommate of hers says they stopped living together as she grew annoyed at how many men Nola had over all the time.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Side character Opal is a lesbian in an otherwise straight cast.

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[[Main/TheRemake Remade]] as a 2019 [[Series/ShesGottaHaveIt TV series]] on Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Lee serving as executive producer.

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It was [[Main/TheRemake Remade]] remade]] as a 2019 2017 [[Series/ShesGottaHaveIt TV series]] on Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Lee serving as executive producer.



* CasanovaWannabe: Mars Blackmon.

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* EveryoneIsBi: Opal, Nola's lesbian friend, claims everyone is sexually flexible, though they usually settle on a preference (as she has).
* IncompatibleOrientation: Opal hopes that Nola will be open to have sex with her, but it doesn't work, despite Nola's curiosity about being with a woman.


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* LipstickLesbian: Opal is long-haired, wears nice dresses and jewelry, while being attracted to her friend Nola as a self-declared lesbian. Funnily enough, Nola (who's aggressively straight) is more butch, slightly, with her short hair and less feminine dress style. Jamie's surprised that Opal's a lesbian because her style doesn't [[ButchLesbian fit the stereotype]], but then admits this is silly after Opal notes lesbians can look like anything.
* MsFanservice: Nola has multiple scenes in which she's topless or undressing, including sex scenes, while she's very good-looking.


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* ReallyGetsAround: Nola is seeing three men at the same time while the events of the film occur, causing most of its drama. At the end she has tried and failed to have a monogamous relationship dating Jamie. An ex-roommate of hers says they stopped living together as she grew annoyed at how many men Nola had over all the time.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic]], [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick.

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* ShoutOut:
** For Nola's birthday surprise, Jamie tells her to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Click your heels three times and repeat after me: 'There's no place like home.'" After she obliges, the film suddenly goes from black-and-white to color.]]

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ShoutOut: For Nola's birthday surprise, Jamie tells her to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Click your heels three times and repeat after me: 'There's no place like home.'" After she obliges, the film suddenly goes from black-and-white to color.]]
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** All the other male leads have their moments too, with Jamie raping Nola and saying that he liked it, and Mars calling her a freak.

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** All the other male leads have their moments too, with Jamie raping Nola [[spoiler:raping Nola]] and saying that he liked it, and Mars calling her a freak.



* RapeAsDrama: Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.

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* RapeAsDrama: Near [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.]]
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* ShoutOut:
** For Nola's birthday surprise, Jamie tells her to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Click your heels three times and repeat after me: 'There's no place like home.'" After she obliges, the film suddenly goes from black-and-white to color.]]
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Save for one color scene, the film is entirely in black and white.

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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee himself about a woman seeing three men at the same time. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon.

''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' is a [[Main/TheRemake remake]] as a TV Series on {{Creator/Netflix}} by the same director.

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The feature debut of writer/director Creator/SpikeLee,
''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and comedy-drama starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee himself himself, about a woman seeing three men at the same time. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon.

''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' is a [[Main/TheRemake remake]] Remade]] as a 2019 [[Series/ShesGottaHaveIt TV Series series]] on {{Creator/Netflix}} by the same director.
Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Lee serving as executive producer.

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* TerriblePickUpLines: There's a montage of bad pickup lines including the classic "Baby, you're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bath water."

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* TerriblePickUpLines: There's a montage of bad pickup lines including the classic "Baby, you're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bath water.""

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* RapeAsDrama: Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.

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* RapeAsDrama: Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.has.
* TerriblePickUpLines: There's a montage of bad pickup lines including the classic "Baby, you're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bath water."
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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee himself. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon.

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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee himself.himself about a woman seeing three men at the same time. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon.
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* BigApplesauce: The film is set in 1980s Brooklyn.


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* OffscreenBreakup: [[spoiler: By the end of the movie Nola dumps Mars and Greer to commit to Jamie, but in the final scene she reveals that she couldn't stand monogamy and their relationship collapsed.]]
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* Jerkass: Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic]], [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick.

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* Jerkass: Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic, [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick.

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* Jerkass: Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic, misogynistic]], [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick.
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''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' is a [[Main/TheRemake remake]] as a TV Series on {{Creator/Netflix}} by the same director.

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''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' is a [[Main/TheRemake remake]] as a TV Series on {{Creator/Netflix}} by the same director.director.

!!This film contains examples of:
* CasanovaWannabe: Mars Blackmon.
** The below mentioned OverlyLongGag has several men who fit this trope.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/SpikeLee as Mars Blackmon, a role he reprised in a series of Nike Air Jordan commercials.
* Jerkass: Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic, [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick.
** All the other male leads have their moments too, with Jamie raping Nola and saying that he liked it, and Mars calling her a freak.
* OverlyLongGag: The scene of several men giving [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] [[CasanovaWannabe pick-up lines]].
* RapeAsDrama: Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.
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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee himself.

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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee himself.
himself. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon.
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''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy directed by Creator/SpikeLee and starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee himself.

''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' is a [[Main/TheRemake remake]] as a TV Series on {{Creator/Netflix}} by the same director.

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