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Jungle Fever
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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Spike Lee
Writer:
Spike Lee (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
7 June 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
This was the era when Spike Lee got as good as he ever got. more (43 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Wesley Snipes ... Flipper Purify

Annabella Sciorra ... Angie Tucci

Spike Lee ... Cyrus

Ossie Davis ... The Good Reverend Doctor Purify
Ruby Dee ... Lucinda Purify

Samuel L. Jackson ... Gator Purify
Lonette McKee ... Drew

John Turturro ... Paulie Carbone
Frank Vincent ... Mike Tucci

Anthony Quinn ... Lou Carbone

Halle Berry ... Vivian
Tyra Ferrell ... Orin Goode

Veronica Webb ... Vera
Veronica Timbers ... Ming
David Dundara ... Charlie Tucci
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sensuality, strong language, drug content, and for violence.
Runtime:
132 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
Samuel L. Jackson had just undergone treatment for drug addiction and had only two weeks from his discharge from rehab to the start of filming. Jackson has gone on record as saying that Gator's ravaged look was not make-up, but actually the result of Jackson's own detoxification. more
Quotes:
Flipper Purify: Of course not. It is a myth. I think. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Chez Whoopi (1991) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
If She Breaks Your Heart more

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
This was the era when Spike Lee got as good as he ever got., 20 February 2006
8/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

Spike Lee made "Jungle Fever" in the era when he also made masterpieces like "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X". I will admit that the subject matter here is nothing that we haven't seen many times (an interracial love story), but Lee knows how to do without getting idiotic or manipulating emotions. In this case, African-American Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) has an affair with Italian-American co-worker Angela Tucci (Annabella Sciorra), thereby setting off a racially charged chain reaction.

A previous reviewer said that Lee throws in so many subplots that the movie gets too confusing. I agree that the various subplots do this to an extent, but I think that Lee mainly wanted to show how people's lives were getting affected by the series of events portrayed. There were some clichés, namely the bigoted Bensonhurst residents, but this is certainly a well done movie. Watch for a young Halle Berry as a crack addict, and I believe that Queen Latifah appears as a waitress.

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