Jungle Fever R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 15, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1991
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Certified Fresh81%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 15,667
...Consistently invigorating....[Sciorra] is a delight, a woman of guts and humor and enormous resilience....Lee joins the ranks of our best...
New York Times
Jun 7, 1991
Rating: 2/4 -- 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. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Apr 21, 2015
The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Jun 23, 2016
Strong and powerful, Jungle Fever dares us to be disinterested, dares us to turn away. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Apr 21, 2015
...Strong and powerful....No other filmmaker has the nerve to ask the questions that must be asked, to ask them so persistently, or so well...
Los Angeles Times
Jun 7, 1991
Rating: 3.5/4 -- 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. Full Review
Baltimore Sun
Apr 21, 2015
...JUNGLE FEVER is a powerhouse - hotly erotic, brutally funny and profoundly disturbing...
Rolling Stone
Jun 27, 1991

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 112,455
  • UPC: 025192042829
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