Jungle Fever

Jun 7, 1991

2h 12m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Universal Pictures

Jungle Fever Trailers

Cast

Flipper Purify

Wesley Snipes

Angie Tucci

Annabella Sciorra

Cyrus

Spike Lee

Reverend Purify

Ossie Davis

Lucinda Purify

Ruby Dee

Gator Purify

Samuel L. Jackson

Drew

Lonette McKee

Pauline Carbone

John Turturro

Mike Tucci

Frank Vincent

Lou Carbone

Anthony Quinn

Vivian

Halle Berry

Orin Goode

Tyra Ferrell

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