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Girl 6
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Girl 6 (1996) -- US Home Video Trailer from Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Overview

User Rating:
4.9/10   3,162 votes
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Director:
Spike Lee
Writer:
Suzan-Lori Parks (written by)
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Release Date:
22 March 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
She's The Only Thing Better Than Being There more
Plot:
This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Top Ten Underrated Films (Of All Time)
 (From FilmShaft.com. 2 September 2009, 11:15 AM, PDT)

The Geek Beat: Jimmy Palmiotti and I Head to 'The Last Resort'
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Theresa Randle ... Girl 6

Isaiah Washington ... Shoplifter

Spike Lee ... Jimmy

Jenifer Lewis ... Boss #1 - Lil

Debi Mazar ... Girl #39

Peter Berg ... Caller #1 - Bob

Michael Imperioli ... Scary Caller #30
Dina Pearlman ... Girl #19
Maggie Rush ... Girl #42
Desi Moreno ... Girl #4
Kristen Wilson ... Salesgirl #1
K Funk ... Salesgirl #2 (as k funk)
Debra Wilson ... Salesgirl #3

Naomi Campbell ... Girl #75

Gretchen Mol ... Girl #12
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for explicit sexual dialogue and some nudity.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The monologue that Lovely reads and the camera angles in the scene where Lovely and Jimmy are in his apartment talking about acting are taken from She's Gotta Have It (1986), also directed by Spike Lee. more
Quotes:
Jimmy: You should get back with your ex, and let him rob you a bank. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ali G Indahouse (2002) more
Soundtrack:
She Spoke 2 Me more

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Girl interrupted, 29 August 2005
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Author: jotix100 from New York

Spike Lee is a man that loves to provoke. He awakens the viewer as he asks to participate in what he is showing on screen. Most of Spike Lee's films have been unmercifully panned by his detractors, including the printed media in this country, and it's a shame because Mr. Lee is one of today's most original creators. In "Girl 6", based on a screen play by the talented Suzan-Lori Parks, a playwright herself, the director directs his satire to the porn industry. If you haven't seen the film, stop reading here!

Judy, the young and black woman at the center of the story, is seen at the start at a casting session with Q.T. (Quentin Tarantino, at his most obnoxious self). Judy is asked by the director to show her breasts, which she reluctantly does, but she is so repulsed by the experience, that Tarantino, or no Tarantino, she's out of there.

This young woman can't find work to enable her to live. The solution presents itself when she answers an ad for a sex phone line after having turned down a woman who runs a strip joint. It appears that Judy is a natural for the job. Suddenly she becomes one of the most demanded woman in the place. She listens attentively, talks soft and is never too pushy or mean to the men who seek her.

Judy makes a mistake when she gives someone her home phone number and goes to meet one of her "regulars" at Coney Island's boardwalk. That's when the dangerous creep keeps persecuting her with threatening phone calls. Since she basically is an actress and wants a change, she decides to leave New York and go to Hollywood, a sad mistake. The last thing we see her do is go to another casting agent who demands to see her breasts, the same thing that the great Tarantino demanded from her! In fact, Spike Lee shows us how women, especially young ones, are vulnerable to fall pray to these unscrupulous operators just to get into the movie business. One thing is evident: Spike Lee is a director who gets magnificent performances out of the stars of his films. In this case is the wonderful Theresa Randle who as Judy runs away with it because she is perfect as Judy. In fact, this young actress turns a great performance under Mr. Lee's direction. It's a shame we don't see her in roles that will let her show her talents in a positive way.

The large cast does amazing work. Madonna does one of the best things she has ever done in a film with the manager of the strip tease joint. She's perfect! Quentin Tarantino plays himself with all the characteristic excess. John Turturro is seen briefly as Judy's agent. Michael Imperioli and Peter Berg are seen as some of Judy's callers. Gretchen Mol, Debi Mazar, Naomi Campbell, Jenifer Lewis are part of the sex phone women, and Ron Silver shows up at the end. Spike Lee himself is the next door neighbor, but he takes a back seat in order to leave the front to the amazing Theresa Randle.

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