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Jungle Fever
Drama, Romance - 1991
6.6
57%
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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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Rated:
R
Runtime:
132 min
Release date:
7 Jun 1991
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$14,000,000
Revenue:
$32,482,682
Awards:
6 wins & 9 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Jungle Fever is not to be underestimated or ignored.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
rotten:
Instead of showing how prejudice seeps into the private intimacies of daily life, the film turns its attention to the other characters.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Lee is in fine form.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
7 Apr 2008
fresh:
There are so many voices you may think you're swimming through a maelstrom, but thanks to Lee it's all superbly orchestrated.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
22 Sep 2008
fresh:
Lee tackles the subject of interracial romance from the unavoidable vantage point that, while things today are more open, they are also considerably more volatile and complex.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
22 Sep 2008
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