| Girl 6 | 
 enlarge | Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, Debi Mazar
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 12033
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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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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 '6' is for sex, fun, laughs, a few tears and a good time June 13, 2008
'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
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.
 just cause of madonna i bought this dvd December 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this film bored me to tears
i just bought it cause madonna makes a cameo appearance
Questionable movie September 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the movie unpersuasive, repetitive, boring and unattractive. The plot is not quite integrated, does not "flow," and has twists and turns that do not make much sense. Acting is mediocre. Props. are generally OK, but not much more. Music is OK.
An Overlooked, Under Appreciated Film April 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my very favorite movies. It has an equal mix of humor and seriousness. Theresa Randle is an amazing actress, and she shows this in taking on her various incarnations during the movie.
At the beginning we meet a very beautiful woman who is sure she is meant to be an actor but is very unsure about herself as a woman and a person. A reading with Quentin Tarantino goes awry when she realizes there is nudity involved. She hestitantly goes through with it but quicly runs out. This doesn't bode well with her agent or her acting coach.
Her acting coach sees that she has a long way to go in acting ... and in growing up. She wishes her well as she drops her.
Looking for work, she stumbles upon a phone sex operator job. At first she is unsure about it, and is visibly stunned that not only is there a racial aspect to the job, and to the whole idea of it.
While her co-workers entertain themselves in other ways, to help in getting caught up with the job, Girl 6 doesn't and eventually becomes way too personally involved with clients. The first one is "Bob Regular."
During all this, her ex-husband tries to court her, store owners harass her thinking because she is a fantasy operator she's a prostitute as well.
Back to Bob Regular, a meeting is to take place, and she's warned by a friend/co-worker not to get involved, but she does it anyway.
She waits. She waits. She waits some more; puttiing her job on the line as she is late for work.
Finally, a man starts walking towards her; she calls out to him, but he looks at her with indifference and keeps going. Myself and others included feel that this WAS indeed Bob, but because she wasn't white (which is the pre-requisite for the operators's characters to be) he just kept walking. Or, it was just a stranger.
In any case, she is distraught and her plans of acting have been all but forgotten; claiming that she IS acting by being a phone sex operator.
As a result, she keeps working and working and working. Getting burnt out, and finally enforced to take a leave of absence.
She needs to work ... money, or just because she's getting hooked ... she decides to take a job that was previously offered by a character played by Madonna. A "home girl," Girl 6 does the phone sex job at home.
Getting further and further into the job, and giving out her personal number and address to clients is taking over; her friends don't see her, they only hear her.
It isn't until her life is threatened that she realizes she needs to break free and to change her life, and pursue the dream she had before: ACTING.
The film ends with her leaving for Hollywood and reading the same piece that she did at the beginning. Another director asks her to undress, but this time, she is determined to stay true to herself, and after giving an impressive reading, leaves. She is now sure of herself, her abilities and she has grown up and matured, and the audience noticeably sees this.
Theresa Randle does an impressive job in her role as the main character, and we learn to laugh, love, and appreciate this woman. We see her at her weakest, and we see her at her finest.
We only learn her real name at the end of the movie, which has been criticized, but this shows us that not only do we have to learn who she is, but so did she. When she hears her name, she expresses how "she likes the sound of it." It took the whole movie for her to truly find herself, and so it is finally complete when we hear it also.
Spike Lee acts in it as her roommate and friend, and does an excellent job doing so, and in directing. He uses various film techniques: colors, parody flashbacks at characters Girl 6 is inspired by, and all these really flesh out the mood or level of severity that the character is in. We are given humor to laugh as the character laughs, and to keep things from getting too morbid, but when he wants us to know things are serious, Lee ensures that we do indeed know that.
Throughout the movie, we also meet a girl through the news on t.v.; a girl who is innocent and sweet, who is injured severely, and we gain a parallel with Girl 6 herself.
Girl 6 watches the news and discovers a young girl has fallen in an elevator shaft and is in critical condition. At this point, she connects with the girl, but so do we soon see that the character really has connected.
The camera moves through the elevator shaft as if we were falling, and this effect continues at different points as Theresa Randle's character begins to fall also.
Eventually, Girl 6 and the girl meet in person which is also a link in recovery and strength.
Again, the type of photography in the movie; the colors, the realism/surrealism changes with the moods and degrees of the main character's development, and this really help to bring out the humor or seriousness of the piece.
Before she leaves for Hollywood, there is a scene where telephones of all shapes and colors fall smashing to the ground. This truly shows that Girl 6 isn't "Girl 6" any longer, but a grown woman who has conquered her fears, her addictions, and is ready to face what life has to bring her from then on.
Madonna and other notable actors/celebrities are featured throughout and they add their own distinctive personality to the film.
In conclusion, "Girl 6" is a movie is a dark comedy, a serious comedy; a mature movie offering laughter, tears, fear, and joy. It isn't for everyone, but if you're a fan of Theresa Randle, Spike Lee, Madonna, or just want something different ... something that has some weight to it, or some twisted humor, then this is definitely for you.
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