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.
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
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 is in fine form.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
7 Apr 2008
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:
Jungle Fever is not to be underestimated or ignored.