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Title: Jungle Fever (1991)
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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 | |
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Veronica Timbers | ... | Ming |
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David Dundara | ... | Charlie Tucci |
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A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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interracial affair | secretary | architect | greenwich village manhattan new york city | cameo appearance |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for sensuality, strong language, drug content, and for violence | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 June 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$14,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$32,482,682Company Credits
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Music and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder
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by arrangement with Stevland Morris Music, ASCAP
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Rick Aiello and Miguel Sandoval reprise their roles as Officers Long and Ponte from Do the Right Thing (1989), appearing in the scene where they pull up and try to arrest Flipper. See more »Goofs
Cameraman's shadow on Flipper when he is telling Cyrus he cheated on Drew See more »Crazy Credits
The opening credits are printed on roadsigns that move across the frame. See more »Soundtracks
Each Other's ThroatsMusic and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder
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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.