Another polemical film about contemporary race relations from writer-director Spike Lee, JUNGLE FEVER offers a host of well-acted, thought-provoking dramatic situations, wrapped in one mess of a story.
Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) is a black urban professional, a New York architect with a promising future and a devoted family. Out of sexual curiousity, he and Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra), an Italian-American office temp, begin an affair which causes or exacerbates a number of domestic and
social conflicts in their neighborhoods. Flipper confides in his friend Cyrus (Spike Lee) about his fling and the news soon reaches Flipper's wife Drew (Lonette McKee), wh...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
132 mins