The two leads click throughout in a movie that's just good enough to engender curiosity over filmmaker Witcher's follow-up effort.
Love Jones
Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.
1997 · 1h 49m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Theodore Witcher
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Love Jones
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.
Director and cast
- Theodore Witcher Director
- Larenz Tate as Darius Lovehall
- Nia Long as Nina Mosley
- Isaiah Washington as Savon Garrison
- Bill Bellamy as Hollywood
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Josie Nichols
- Marie-Françoise Theodore as Tracey Powell
- Khalil Kain as Marvin Cox
- Leonard Roberts as Eddie Coles
- Bernadette Speakes as Sheila Downes
- Kahil El'Zabar Cast
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