Love Jones

Mar 14, 1997

1h 48m

★ 7.4

Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.

Overview

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

Addis-Wechsler Productions

Love Jones Trailers

Cast

Darius Lovehall

Larenz Tate

Nina Mosley

Nia Long

Savon Garrison

Isaiah Washington

Hollywood

Bill Bellamy

Josie Nichols

Lisa Nicole Carson

Tracey Powell

Marie-Françoise Theodore

Marvin Cox

Khalil Kain

Eddie Coles

Leonard Roberts

Sheila Downes

Bernadette Speakes

Percussionist

Kahil El'Zabar

London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.

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