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Jun 7, 1991 · Jungle Fever: Directed by Spike Lee. With Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis. Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
- Spike Lee
- 3 min
- Wesley Snipes, Then
- Wesley Snipes, Now
- Annabella Sciorra, Then
- Annabella Sciorra, Now
- Lonette Mckee, Then
- Lonette Mckee, Now
- Spike Lee, Then
- Spike Lee, Now
- Veronica Webb, Then
- Veronica Webb, Now
"I have to admit, I've always been curious about Caucasian women … That doesn't mean to say that because a brother is with a white girl that he's less progressive. I'm still very pro-black," said Flipper Purify, Snipes' character in Jungle Fever. He was happily married, with a beautiful child and a good career. But after he began an extramarital af...
From a drug kingpin in New Jack City to a drag queen in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar to a vampire-killing badass in Blade, Snipes played a host of roles throughout the '90s. Too bad for Snipes and his tax-evasion ways, the new millennium wasn't too kind. He's currently serving a three-year prison sentence; his release date is se...
Angie Tucci was happy to have a good-paying job at a "really nice place." She'd never been to Harlem, never knew anyone from there. Until she met Flipper. They got busy on his work desk and moved in together after Flipper's wife threw him out.
After Jungle Fever, Sciorra had several film and television roles, including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Cop Land and The Sopranos. Sciorra currently stars opposite Chris Rock in Stephen Adly Guirgis' play The Motherf***er With the Hat.
As Flipper's wife, Drew, she confronted her husband about his obsession with complexion. Drew:Well, I guess I wasn’t light enough for you. Was I Flipper? You had to eventually go get yourself a white girl, didn't you? Flipper:What do you mean, eventually? Drew:What I mean is you got a complex about color. You always had it, and I never wanted to be...
As of late, she's played somebody's mother. Ray Allen's mom in Spike Lee's He Got Game. Jessica Alba's mom in Honey. Lauren London's mom in ATL. And Jason Pitts' mom in The Game. Later this month, she'll appear in Honey 2, and she is currently a professor in the theater arts department at Centenary College of New Jersey.
"The both of youse got the fever. Jungle fever." Jungle Feverwas Lee's fifth feature film. He played Flipper's best friend, Cyrus, who let it slip to his wife (Veronica Webb) that Flipper had been cheating.
Lee's come a long way since his Jungle Fever days. He's not in all of his films, and he's recruiting other writers to scribe his films (Miracle at St. Anna, Inside Man). He's also put out two great documentaries on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. In June 2011, he'll be hosting the third annual Michael Jackson Birthday Bash in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Webb played Vera, Cyrus' (Spike Lee) wife and Drew's (Lonette McKee) best friend. She was the first black supermodel to gain an exclusive contract with a major cosmetics company. This was Webb's feature-film debut.
In 2007 Webb co-hosted Bravo's Tim Gunn's Guide to Style for the series' first season. In 2009 she ran the ING New York City marathon and raised money for Harlem United, an organization that seeks to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee.Starring Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Tim Robbins, Brad Dourif, Giancarlo Esposito, Debi Mazar, Michael Imperioli, Anthony Quinn, and Halle Berry and Queen Latifah in their film debuts, Jungle Fever ...
- $14 million
- June 7, 1991
- Spike Lee
Synopsis. Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) is a successfully married African American man who works at an architectural firm in New York City. One day, an Italian American woman named Angela "Angie" Tucci (Annabella Sciorra) is hired as a temporary secretary at the place. Flipper complains to his partners Jerry (Tim Robbins) and Leslie (Brad ...
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Jun 7, 1991 · Edited by. "Jungle Fever" is Spike Lee's term for unhealthy sexual attraction between the races - for relationships based on stereotypes. Too often, he believes, when blacks and whites go to bed with one another, they are motivated, not by love or affection, but by media-based myths about the sexual allure of the other race.
May 13, 2024 · Cast of Jungle Fever. Movie ( 1991) • 50 total actors • 132 minutes. Jungle Fever explores interracial relationships and societal issues. The cast of Jungle Fever includes Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Anthony Quinn, Halle Berry, and Tyra ...
