<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7.1 million </Td> </Tr> <P> She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black - and - white comedy - drama film written, edited and directed by Spike Lee . Filmed on a small budget and Lee's first feature - length film, it earned positive reviews and launched Lee's career . </P> <P> The film stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee himself in a supporting role . Also appearing are cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as a Queens, New York resident and, in an early appearance, S. Epatha Merkerson as a doctor . The plot concerns a young woman (Johns) who is seeing three men, and the feelings this arrangement provokes . </P> <P> In 2017 Lee adapted the film into a Netflix series . </P>

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