Jungle Fever (1991)

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Spike Lee Wants Barack Obama To ...
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"And the right thing sure ain’t any sort of riff on Jungle Fever. Spike was in Toronto promoting both his film Miracle at Saint Anna and the relatively new online film festival Babelgum, where he serves as “the ultimate jury.” Meaning, he picks the final winner. We caught up to ask him what he thought about vice presidential nominee and hockey mom Sarah Palin, and it looks like he wants a showdown between Barack and Sarah. “I think with that speech…when she said that speech it allowed Joe America to go after her. None of this stuff about how you can’t go off on her because she’s a woman. The stuff the she spoke, he should go after her hard. It’s time to take the kid gloves off.” Can we assume that Spike is ready for some Democratic muds " [More]

Jungle Fever (1991, USA, Spike ...
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"I don't really know what Spike Lee is trying to say with Jungle Fever, his film about interracial romance and attraction. I'm not sure if this is a didactic "statement" movie or a De Sican "observation" movie. I mostly enjoyed while watching it, and think it has some important points, but too often meanders into uncessary subplots. The main story in a film with many is focused on Wesley Snipes (an really underrated actors) as "Flipper" Purify, a black man apparently happily married to a black woman (Lonette McKee) who works at an architectual firm. One day, out of the blue, he has an affair with his unmarried white secretary Angie (Annabella Sciorra), who has a casaul boyfriend (John Turturro) and lives with her family. The affair's cover is quickly blow and Flipper and Angie both get kicked out of their homes. Flipper's wife is doubly upset - both that he cheated on her, and the fact it was with a white woman, Angie's father (Frank Vincent) is just racist. There are many sub ... " [More]

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