Movie
Jungle Fever
1991R2h 12m6.4 / 10
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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about Jungle Fever
Cast
Wesley SnipesFlipper Purify
Annabella SciorraAngie Tucci
Spike LeeCyrus
Ossie DavisReverend Purify
Ruby DeeLucinda Purify
Samuel L. JacksonGator Purify
Lonette McKeeDrew
John TurturroPauline CarboneCredits
- Directed by
- Spike Lee
- Written by
- Spike Lee
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $14M
- Box office
- $32.5M
Production
40 Acres and a Mule FilmworksUnited States
Universal PicturesUnited States
Themes
architectcrack addictforbidden lovefrustratedinterracial relationshipnew york cityxenophobia
