Inspired by Jim Jarmusch's success with his debut feature, Stranger Than Paradise, young NYU-trained director Spike Lee set out to create his own vision of the contemporary independent narrative film. She's Gotta Have It was shot in a dozen days on a paltry budget with four Lee family members contributing both on and off screen. (Lee costars, while his jazz-musician father Bill Lee scored the film and appears as the female protagonist's father.) The film is a contemporary sex farce about Nola Darling, a very independent single black woman whose sexually liberated life is presented through a Rashomon-like series of encounters with each of her current boyfriends (a schleppish nice guy, a narcissistic male model, and a sly Brooklyn trickster named Mars).