Girl 6 | 
| Actors: Richard Belzer, Peter Berg, Halle Berry, Naomi Campbell, Ranjit Chowdhry
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 37788
Format: Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DV13772
UPC: 013131377293
EAN: 0013131377293
ASIN: B000DZ95HG
Theatrical Release Date: March 22, 1996
Release Date: March 7, 2006
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Product Description
Girl 6 is a young actress trying to make it in New York. When work and money are scarce she becomes a phone sex operator to pay the rent and embarks on a fantastic roller-coaster journey of self-discovery.System Requirements:Running Time: 107 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 013131377293 Manufacturer No: DV13772
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Perhaps only Spike Lee could make a dignified yet extremely funny comedy-drama about phone sex. Theresa Randle (Bad Boys) is the title character, a hard-working actress who becomes addicted to this peculiar form of safe sex (the movie is verbal, not physical, in that department) at a high-class New York agency. Throughout the film, Girl 6 (she's unnamed beyond this) sports a dazzling array of new looks, hairstyles, and clothes. Randle radiates every step of the way. Lee even delivers on fantasy elements when Girl 6 finds herself in a send-up of blaxploitation films and a keen lampoon of The Jeffersons (the three-minute sequence is better than any planned TV-to-movie film that may come along). Revelations about Girl 6's life are brought out through her ex-husband (Isaiah Washington), who, in his very flawed but honest way, plans to reunite with her. Better yet are conversations with the next-door neighbor (Spike Lee, doing some of his best work). Solitary, experimental, with plenty of delicious cameos (including Madonna), Girl 6 is playwright Suzan-Lori Parks's first screenplay. Similar in tone to Lee's debut, She's Gotta Have It, Girl 6 also boasts an energetic mix of old and new songs by Prince and, as always with Lee, colorful camerawork. An alleyway kiss near the end is a great romantic image. --Doug Thomas
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 Loved it! April 22, 2009
robert campbell (nice, ca United States)
This is one of my favorite Spike Lee movies. Story of an aspiring actress who refuses to do nude scenes, gets 86'd from her acting career, and becomes a telephone sex operator. Great cameos with Madonna, Spike himself, Quentin Taratino, with great music from Prince. Translation to DVD is excellent. Highly recommended
 Engaging but sketchy character study. . . February 11, 2009
Danniray99 (Expatriate in Germany)
Spike Lee's "Girl 6" is a strange, open-ended comedy-drama that actually amounts to little more than a tantalizing character study. The film's protagonist, Judy (Theresa Randle), is an out-of-work actress from New York who moonlights as an assembly-line phone sex operator. After she's dropped by her agent and acting coach, and humiliated in casting calls (she's repeatedly asked, for example, to disrobe before casting directors), Judy joins a group of "office girls" who anonymously entertain a motley crew of male callers, indulging their fantasies with steamy sex- or psychological talk while remaining thoroughly disengaged. Largely young, attractive (the film features a very young Naomi Campbell) and racially diverse, the ladies are resigned to such work because they can't catch a break elsewhere. At once intriguing and repulsive, this newfound sideline exposes Judy's emotional baggage and sorely tests her self-esteem and fortitude as she longs for a career as a legitimate actress. "Girl 6" is sometimes quite funny, but it's also a none-too-subtle commentary about the (well-known) dearth of meaningful roles and opportunities for Black actors. Likewise, there are plenty of sign-posts about the corrosive side-effects of the sex trade and, finally, sly, careful-what-you-wish-for insinuations about the pitfalls of mainstream success (Judy's idol is Dorothy Dandridge, who in 1955 became the first Black Actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in a leading role ["Carmen Jones"]. Dandridge died at age 42, penniless, heartbroken and virtually forgotten). As Judy, Theresa Randle is a jaw-dropping specimen. Her face is at once breathtakingly innocent, fresh and world weary. She, like the movie itself, leaves us wanting more. "Girl 6" is perfectly watchable, but the overall effect is far too sketchy to be compelling. Spike Lee himself appears as Judy's next-door neighbor and best friend. Also with Isaiah Washington and memorable cameos by the likes of Quentin Tarrantino, Madonna, Ron Silver and Halle Berry (who, coincidentally, later won acclaim for her 1998 portrayal of Dandridge and subsequently went on to claim an Oscar for Best Actress for "Monster's Ball" in 2001). The film's soundtrack--by turns loopy, dissonant, and furtively sexual--is produced by--who else?--Prince.
Talk, Talk January 19, 2009
Mr. Richard D. Coreno (Berea, Ohio USA)
Judy has a life in free-fall.
Her ex-husband is light years from being career-orientated, her best friend is a wannabe sports memorabilia dealer and she has just suffered through a "job" interview with a slick-talking movie director who has his eyes on the casting couch more than looking for the next big star. And now her nominal agent is going to be upset that she walked out on this "big break" that he set up all for her.
But all that drama is not helping Judy pay the bills and put food on the table. So she decides to answer an employment ad in a newspaper that promises the opportunity to make great cash through work over the telephone.
And this is where Judy (portrayed by Theresa Randle) becomes Girl 6, the phone sex operator. Directed by Spike Lee - with the screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks - it is an oftentimes funny, but also quite serious and sometimes disturbing look into a woman who truly becomes a number as she tries to chase her dream of an acting career.
The plot goes full-circle, with Judy learning as much about herself as how the game is played on the fringes of the "entertainment" industry, along with a demoralizing gaze into the anonymity of life and the manipulation by depersonalizing the individual.
It truly is a look into the emptiness of talk, talk.
'6' is for sex, fun, laughs, a few tears and a good time June 13, 2008
Darryl K. Clark (springfield, missouri)
'girl 6' is one of the few spike lee films that i appreciate wholly and in parts.
the first part is suzan-lori parks' screenplay. there are times when it feels like a goodly portion of the dialogue is being written as the actors speak the lines. her words are that good. the situation which her heroine finds herself in is one that any performer has dealt with. she somehow manages to plunge the depths of human experience and pull herself up to reconnect with her ambitions to become a working actress without compromise.
the second is theresa randle's performance as girl 6. 6 (or judy) has a lot of issues, a great deal of baggage to carry and randle doesn't hold back in revealing any of 6's complexity. she is vain, she is overly romantic, she is strong and she, as a character, is in great hands with randle. i can always turn to this film and jump in because randle's performance is that finely crafted and inviting. a sad postscript is that this fabulous actress hasn't had much to do since this film was released in 1996.
the third is the supporting cast, filled with many recognizable faces such as isiah washington, jenifer lewis, gretchen mol, naomi campbell, richard belzer, madonna, michael imperioli, debi mazar, debra wilson, quentin tarantino, john turturro and lee himself. many of these actors had worked or continue to work with lee on his joints. the cast is an embarassment of riches and each actor comes through.
the fourth is the soundtrack made up of prince tunes. lee uses the music well and the songs are some of the best prince recorded, especially 'erotic city', 'how come u don't call me...' and 'nothing compares to u'. not to mention the sneak-ins of prince-produced classic like 'nasty girl' and 'screams of passion'.
fifth, and i write this gingerly, is the signature use of subplot. lee uses this device in his films seemingly in an effort to make them longer. they add little or nothing to the general action nor do they move the films forward with ease. 'girl 6' has one of these subplots and it is only at the last third of the film that is seems that it's affecting the film for the worse.
but for the most part, the visuals are stimulating, and at times poetic, the editing and camerawork are dancelike and not too gimmicky and everything works together in a funny, touching whole that sparks some interesting discussion about sex, women and their bodies when they are in the entertainment industry by choice or design.
Girl 6 - listen 2 your fears (I got a 25 inch waist) (Oh yeah) March 9, 2008
J. Abercrombi (Honolulu)
This movie is almost like a weird dream that you just can't shake. It only drew me in becuase it was so confusing. Blockbuster should put it in the strange but un-true isle.
"Girl 6" is a very rare movie, because as far as I can think, it's the only miss by the brilliant Spike Lee. It's just such a convoluted mix because the plot is changing and running all around in different places. The lead actress Theresa Randle (Judy) was one minute auditioning for a movie, then working as a phone sex operator and then there's all these scenes about a missing girl from NY (90's "b-talk show star," Rolonda Watts played a newscaster.) None of it made much sense to me. Theresa Randle either tried way too hard or not enough because she just didn't come off as a believable character.
And, it seemed that perhaps Spike had some very subtle messages of social equality. I especially picked this up when Jennifer Lewis (Boss #1, Lil) mouthed to all her girls that unless otherwise told, they were all "w-h-i-t-e." But this is again something that wasn't really touched upon throughout the movie.
I did enjoy the soundtrack very much, by Prince. He actually wrote an entire song of CDs just for this movie which are amazing. And the movie also includes lots of cameos: Martin-the-caller was played by Kid Creole and the Coconuts star ~ Coati Mundi, Girl #75 was played by everyone's favorite model who just can't keep her hands to herself ~ Naomi Campbell and everyone's favorite inmaterial girl played Boss #3. And Halle Berry even pops up briefly in a walk-on role as heself.
If you want to see this movie, it comes on Encore often and was just added to Comcast's on-demand menu. I wouldn't buy this movie unless it was marked down to next to nothing because this doesn't ring my bell.
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