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Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

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Jungle Fever

1991

2h 12m

6.4(324 votes)

Drama

Romance

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.

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Production Companies

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Universal Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes

Flipper Purify

Annabella Sciorra

Annabella Sciorra

Angie Tucci

Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Cyrus

Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

Reverend Purify

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

Lucinda Purify

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Gator Purify

Lonette McKee

Lonette McKee

Drew

John Turturro

John Turturro

Pauline Carbone

Frank Vincent

Frank Vincent

Mike Tucci

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Lou Carbone

Creative team

Directed by: Spike Lee
Written by: Spike Lee
Produced by: Spike Lee

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