Jungle Fever (1991)

Name: Jungle Fever
Director: Spike Lee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1991
Duration: 132 min

ThumbScore

👍 70%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.

Critics Score

🎬 81% (RT: 81%)

DramaRomance

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Director

Spike Lee

Runtime

2h 12m

Country

United States of America

Language

English

TMDB Rating

6.4/10 (333 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

81%

Cast

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify · 72% avg

Annabella Sciorra as Angie Tucci · 73% avg

Spike Lee as Cyrus · 71% avg

Ossie Davis as Reverend Purify · 76% avg

Ruby Dee as Lucinda Purify · 68% avg

Samuel L. Jackson as Gator Purify · 71% avg

Lonette McKee as Drew · 76% avg

John Turturro as Pauline Carbone · 71% avg

Is Jungle Fever good?

Most people think so. 70% audience score, estimated from 333 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 81%.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗