Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The_Film_Cricket I was talking to a friend not long before I saw 'Girl 6' about how interesting it would be to see a documentary about the women who take a job doing phone sex. Then I heard that Spike Lee was directing a film about that very subject – even better. Having seen Lee's film, I'm still waiting for that documentary.Spike Lee's 'Girl 6' is an overstuffed movie about a woman who takes such a profession but uses it as a clothesline on which to hang a lot of unnecessary and puzzling subplots. This is a case where less would have been more.Teresa Randel stars as a desperate actress wading through a series of sexist males who won't give her a job unless she is willing to work topless. In need of an income she takes a job working for a phone sex operation. Surprisingly, she's very good at it (we know this because she draws crowd of co-workers on her first call). I was puzzled by this scene because an opening scene showed a director at an audition demanding to see her topless and she seemed humiliated – now she is having phone sex and seemingly enjoying every minute of it.The problem with 'Girl 6' is it's point of view. We are suppose to sympathize with Randel but Lee sees her from the view of the salivating males who call her. Worse still Lee has her becoming addicted to the job. The lowest point is when agrees to meet with one of her callers who eventually stands her up! There are a lot of unnecessary fantasy sequences in which we see Randel in everything from Foxy Brown to The Jefferson but I couldn't figure out what they had to do with anything. There is a subplot involving her ex-husband (Isaiah Washington) who is still in love with her. There is the good-hearted neighbor played by Lee himself.All of this stuff in unnecessary and should have been trimmed to make for a much simpler movie. 'Girl 6' reminded me of Lee's 1991 film 'Jungle Fever' in which he takes a very basic idea (an interracial relationship) and packs it so full of distractions that it collapses under it's own weight. Here we have pieces and chunks of several movies packed together into one sexist, chaotic mess.

dougbone-1 Phone sex has often fallen short of my high expectations in carnal satisfaction because they lack the lustful passion that drives the performance given by the goddess Girl 6 in the Spike Lee joint "GIRL 6". If there ever was a fantasy woman of lust I believe Spike Lee found her in the gorgeous lust temptress Miss Theresa Randle.This film, ignited by Miss Randle lustful performance, showed the world how much power these true temptresses can have over their clients when they are gifted with the steamy ability of Girl 6. Her power is so great that it would almost seduce her very own soul. Nevertheless,I would give my soul, let alone the $4.99 a minute fee, so that girl 6 gives me the ultimate sexual fantasy that enthralls my every being.Overall, Girl 6 is the definitive number every red blooded American male should be dialing because the sensation can only be defined as....MMMMMM, YES, OH GOD, YESSSS!!!!! THANK YOU MISS RANDLE, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE please!!

dromasca Amazing how badly received was this film. Only an average of 5 from the IMDb viewers?? In my opinion it is a remarkable film from many points of view, daring and interesting, one of Lee's best.There are many layers in this film. Let us start with the story - an Afro-American actress refuses to expose her body for screen tests, finds herself unemployed, and the lucrative job she finds is in the phone sex industry. Is this job less exposing and more honorable? It seems it is, and what comes plays on a fine line between acting and living a virtual life, that takes over the mundane aspects of the say-to-day life (a kleptomaniac ex, a timid neighbor). The dream plan becomes more complex, intertwined with the story of a little girl that went through an accident to be saved redeemed by the good people around. The film asks questions about the border between passion and addiction, between real life and imagination in a series of lively sketches. Lee with his Afro-American New York reminds here Woody Allen at his best when re-creating the Jewish New York.Unfortunately, the end is conventional and a little bit confusing. However, the film has many qualities, and a strong cast, first of all the amazing Theresa Randle. I wonder how such a wonderful actress disappeared after such a film, does anybody know what happen to her career? Good movie, worth watching, growing up in time. 8 out of 10 on my personal scale.

cealchylle I can't help but to be amused by the other comments/reviews on this movie. They (even the positive ones) completely enforce exactly what this movie is actively trying to point out about our society.Several people noted that the narrative was weak or nonexistent, that the film didn't "go" anywhere, and/or that there was too much extra "stuff" that distracted the story from the "real" plot line. I'm here to tell you that this is the whole point of Spike Lee's brilliant Girl 6. It's not a flaw in the movie, it is part of it's very construction.Every time an extradiegetic scene was placed within the overall plot (such as the Dorothy Dandridge, Foxy Brown, Jeffersons scenes as well as the recurring image of the elevator shaft) the audience is pulled away from the narrative of the film and forced to see it as such: a movie! And fictional movies have no basis in reality; the people and actions depicted are not real. This disrupts our normal expectations about what we expect to see in a film.The movie is also scattered with touches of reflexivity. For example, Naomi Campbell, wearing a shirt that says "Models Suck" and Quentin Tarantino, acting very ironically in a way he has been accused of. At the end, the movie theater in L.A. is showing a movie entitled "Girl 6" and a billboard proclaims that it's "The End." Absolutely all of this is purposeful and calculated. It does exactly what so many people were disappointed not to see, by subverting our expectations and implicitely pointing out that this is NOT a movie you can just "fall into" and become a passive spectator, that it actively engages the audience and breaks down our concepts of the master narrative by giving us an ending we did not expect.Girl 6 is not a movie about phone sex, as so many of you seem to believe. It is a feminist (if you know anything about Suzan-Lori Parks, you know she would never condone something sexist, let alone write it) film that deliberately references itself in order to subvert our expectations about films, society, and women.It's really a shame that so many people are, in fact, so hooked on "traditional" forms of narrative (taught by a sexist society) that they fail to see the value of this film.