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Jungle Fever
The romance between black architect Flipper Purify and his white office temp Angie Tucci is the subject of director Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, a statement on interracial love and its effects on the society at large.
28 January 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1961, Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
16 October 1958, West Covina, California, USA
20 December 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
April 21, 2015
Lee's direction is wonderfully fluid and, as in most of his movies, he is superbly served by the striking cinematography of Ernest Dickerson and strong lead performances. However, there is a glibness to his script.
April 21, 2015
Isn't it refreshing to talk about a thoughtful movie in a summer full of fluff?
April 21, 2015
However diffuse the movie's agenda, it is never less than thoroughly involving.
April 21, 2015
In that sense, Lee is a victim of his own high standard.
April 21, 2015
It's all too much for Lee to handle. Jungle Fever is overlong, yet he hasn't found the screen time to give each of these people his or her reasons, and even the Snipes and Sciorra characters slip away from him.
April 21, 2015
Jungle Fever is so many graceful things, so many angry things, so many truly moving things that its occasional faults are the faults of excess passion, not failure of imagination.
April 21, 2015
Jungle Fever may be a failure, but it is the kind of failure that engenders hope: It finds Lee refining the skills he already possesses and striking out in encouraging new directions.
April 21, 2015
Jungle Fever is confidently acted, brilliantly written and thoroughly provocative. Lee has succeeded again.
April 21, 2015
It certainly is something to see.
April 21, 2015
You'll remember Sciorra and Snipes but wish you had learned more about them -- and the society that complicates their lives so cruelly.
June 23, 2016
The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves.
April 21, 2015
Strong and powerful, Jungle Fever dares us to be disinterested, dares us to turn away.
