Jungle Fever
This romantic story began between the black architect Flipper Purify and his white office girl Angie Touche, in a relationship that is the finest and best in society. This strong relationship began in spite of the difference and contrast between them in a story that shows the compatibility of love with the different social conditions and customs as well as presenting a real view on the problem of races and its effects on society as a whole without discrimination or racism.
21 April 1915, Chihuahua, Mexico
14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
29 January 1962, Queens, New York, USA
5 November 1961, Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
16 October 1958, West Covina, California, USA
28 January 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
27 December 1964, South Central, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 March 1950, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
28 May 1972, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
18 December 1917, Cogdell, Georgia, USA
1972
22 July 1954, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 October 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1958
29 March 1960, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
April 21, 2015
Jungle Fever is confidently acted, brilliantly written and thoroughly provocative. Lee has succeeded again.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.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
In that sense, Lee is a victim of his own high standard.April 21, 2015
It certainly is something to see.June 23, 2016
The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves.April 21, 2015
Isn't it refreshing to talk about a thoughtful movie in a summer full of fluff?April 21, 2015
Strong and powerful, Jungle Fever dares us to be disinterested, dares us to turn away.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
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 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
However diffuse the movie's agenda, it is never less than thoroughly involving.