Spike Lee's shrill, juvenile polemic crams ideas about corporate greed, same-sex parenting and racial stereotypes into a narrative torn from the video store's adult-movie section. Harvard-educated African-American executive Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) wants to settle down and have children, but he's still reeling from his ugly breakup with ex-fiancée Fatima (Kerry Washington). His business life, by contrast, is sizzling: He's the youngest vice president in the history of Progeia Pharmaceuticals, and stands to become seriously rich after their revolutionary AIDS vaccine launches. But the suicide of Progeia's chief research scientist (David Bennett), coupled with r...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
138 mins