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Jungle Fever, 1991

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra

Directed by: Spike Lee

Written by: Spike Lee

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 132 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.4

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The mood of Jungle Fever is sexy, disturbing, and thought provoking. The plot centers around interracial relations, infidelity, and a love affair. It is a drama and romance movie. Stylistically, Jungle Fever is a melodrama, involves blaxpoitation, and features an all-star cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Jungle Fever is set in Harlem. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that Jungle Fever includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.

Summary of Jungle Fever

Spike Lee's drama is a complex, multilayered, and volatile look at interracial romance in present-day New York City. Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), an up-and-coming African American architect, seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice apartment on a renovated street in Harlem, a beautiful, intelligent wife whom he adores, and a bright, loving daughter. The last thing he expects is to find himself in an affair with a blue-collar Italian American from Bensonhurst. But soon after Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra) comes to work in his office, the two end up staying late together and having intimate talks over takeout Chinese food. Inevitably a romance begins, leaving Flipper and Angie caught up in the fury and suspicion of the racial prejudice of their families and friends. As their lives unravel, so does their affair, and they wonder if their relationship ever had a chance from the beginning. As usual with Lee, he isn't content to tackle simply one issue in his films--in Jungle Fever, he addresses, for perhaps the first time, the drug epidemic in the African American community. In this subplot, Samuel L. Jackson plays Gator, Flipper's crackhead brother, with an intensity that is almost too painful to watch.