Joie LeeFilmography

Born:: Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Associate Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Joie Susannah Lee
Biography:: Supporting actress Joie Lee frequently plays small roles in the films of her distinguished brother, Spike Lee. She made her debut in his She's Gotta Have It (1986). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Full Grown Men

Actors: Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris, Jim Fyfe, Jerry Grayson

Synopsis: The youthful delusions of a wistful husband and father prompt him to seek out a childhood friend and embark on a soul-searching journey of self discovery to the one place where no adult demands will be made of him in director David Munro's surreal second coming-of-age comedy. Alby (Matt McGrath) Read More

6/27/08
All the Invisible Children

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Bila, Elysee Rounamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Ahmed Ouedraogo, Harouna Ouedraogo

Synopsis: Omnibus films attained renewed popularity during the 1990s and 2000s; this particular seven-episode film-a-sketch arrived during that period, and involved several top-tiered international filmmakers including John Woo, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Emir Kusturica and three others. Each helmer was asked Read More

2005
She Hate Me

Actors: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Directed by Spike Lee, She Hate Me follows John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), who is fired from a posh job in biotechnology after informing the proper authorities of some sketchy business dealings from within the company. Unemployed and desperate for some quick cash, Jack accepts a Read More

7/28/04
Coffee and Cigarettes

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, "Coffee Read More

5/14/04
Hook'd Up

Actors: Malik Yoba, Stacey Dash, Monteria Ivey, Rhoda Ross Kendrick, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Synopsis: Writer/director Mike Sargent makes his feature debut with this witty romantic comedy about looking for a lover in the newspaper pages. New York reporter Keith Parker (Malik Yoba) neglects his day job to tend to his two girlfriends. His carefully balanced world comes crashing down when he gets Read More

1999
Girl 6

Actors: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, Debi Mazar

Synopsis: Spike Lee directed this comedy-drama about a woman who falls into a career in phone sex. An African-American woman (Theresa Randle) who aspires to a career as an actress endures a number of dispiriting jobs (handing out leaflets and working as a coat check girl) before reaching the end of her rope Read More

1996
Nowhere Fast

Actors: Darnell Martin, Addison Cook, Jerry Lindsey, Ari

Synopsis: Nineteen unsavory characters find their lives briefly intertwined one Friday afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood in this sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic offering from Cinque Lee (brother of distinguished director Spike Lee). None of the characters are actors and all of them use their actual Read More

1996
Losing Isaiah

Actors: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daisy Eagan

Synopsis: Two women of dramatically different social, economic, and ethnic circumstances find themselves locked into a bitter child custody dispute in this emotionally powerful drama. Khailia Richards (Halle Berry) is a poor and drug-addicted single mother who, while stumbling out of a crack house one Read More

1995
Crooklyn

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee and his siblings Cinque Lee and Joie Lee co-wrote this nostalgic but unglamorized look at a family growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, inspired by their own childhood. Woody Carmichael (Delroy Lindo) is a jazz musician whose career is in a slump; he once made a good living as a session Read More

1994
Fathers and Sons

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Ellen Greene, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After his wife dies, Max Fish (Jeff Goldblum) trades in his directing career for the life of a New Jersey bookstore owner. As Max struggles to overcome his drinking problem, his moody son Ed (Rory Cochrane) tries out a drug scene of his own, and the two try to work out their changing Read More

1992
A Kiss Before Dying

Actors: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, James Russo, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: This thriller is the second film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Matt Dillon stars as Jonathan Corliss, a lethal schemer from the wrong side of the tracks. Now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan has been obsessed since childhood with the fortunes of a company Read More

4/26/91
Mo' Better Blues

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington). He leads a quintet at the Beneath the Underground club with a flashy saxophonist named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Though Shadow takes a few too many solos Read More

8/3/90
Rail Jumper

1990
Do the Right Thing

Actors: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters Read More

6/30/89
Bail Jumper

Actors: Eszter Balint, B.J. Spalding, Tony Askin, Bo Brinkman, Joie Lee

Synopsis: Bail Jumper is a surrealistic "road movie", bearing traces of the best of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders-with a bit of David Lynch thrown in. B.J. Spalding and Eszter Balint play a couple of losers, mired in a miserable flyspeck town in Missouri. As Spalding lies in his bed and plays with his guns, Balint Read More

1989
School Daze

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Fraternity and sorority members clash with the other students at a historically black university in this politically charged musical, which marked the sophomore feature from director Spike Lee. Dap (Laurence Fishburne) is a politically conscious brother who leads anti-apartheid demonstrations and Read More

2/12/88
She's Gotta Have It

Actors: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell

Synopsis: Spike Lee's breakthrough independent feature, shot in fifteen days on a budget of $175,000, ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American independent film movement of the 1980s. It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in Read More

8/8/86