Movie
Jungle Fever
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1991-06-07
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify
- Annabella Sciorra as Angie Tucci
- Spike Lee as Cyrus
- Ossie Davis as Reverend Purify
- Ruby Dee as Lucinda Purify
- Samuel L. Jackson as Gator Purify
- Lonette McKee as Drew
- John Turturro as Pauline Carbone
- Frank Vincent as Mike Tucci
- Anthony Quinn as Lou Carbone
- Halle Berry as Vivian
- Tyra Ferrell as Orin Goode
Crew
- Spike Lee - Director
- Spike Lee - Writer
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