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Jungle Fever

DramaRomance

Directed by Spike Lee

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. From TMDB

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Jungle Fever is a 1991 drama romance film, directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra and Ossie Davis.

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  • Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    JUNGLE FEVER also opened 35 years ago today. My 25th anniversary article on Spike's Joint: www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-...

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Terence Blanchard (with scenes from the Spike Lee films "Jungle Fever", "Malcolm X", "Summer of Sam" and "Bamboozled" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

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  • Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2025

    When JUNGLE FEVER turned 25, I wrote this piece over at @slantmagazine.com about how it's a transitional movie for Spike Lee. It's also his 1950s message picture. It opened on this day back in 1991. www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-...

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  • Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    Favorite Samuel L. Jackson performance: Unbreakable Best Samuel L. Jackson performance: Jungle Fever Best movie that Samuel L. Jackson is in: Pulp Fiction

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  • Shlepcar @shlepcar.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    #MayMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 13. Stevie Wonder song in a movie Jungle Fever (1991) dir. Spike Lee

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  • georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    slick Willy has been seen entering the hospital with a you of Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever on Blu-ray

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  • John Lowe @archaeocore.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    I’m also a huge Spike Lee fan (Do The Right Thing is my favorite movie of all time); I think Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues, and Crooklyn get overlooked (especially Mo Better Blues, the story is a little thin but the mood is amazing)

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  • Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    1957: Spike Lee, American film director (Mo' Better Blues; Jungle Fever; Malcolm X), born in Atlanta, Georgia

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  • Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    finally manned up and watched "Jungle Fever". a Black professor showed only the 'Samuel Jackson manipulating his mom' scenes, and I couldn't get over that impression, even though a film-savvy Black lady told me it was a false one I'd adopted. Finally watched it. I really should've sooner.

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  • Blake Rogers Wilson @bodyindc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    Has a white person in a Spike Lee film ever experienced physical violence? I'm thinking only Jungle Fever where the father beats his daughter. TW////// RE: the autopsy photos in 4 Little Girls, all those crime scene photos in Clockers and the child that lost their foot in one of the Katrina docs.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    On this day (6th March) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing New Jack City and Jungle Fever as a double bill.

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  • 👑J.👑 @j-thatdcdude.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2026

    #Nowplaying #StevieWonder #JustGr8Music🎧 #MUSICSKY These Three Words - Stevie Wonder (Jungle Fever: Soundtrack from the Movie)

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  • The_Philadelphian @the-philadelphian.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    While "Do The Right Thing" was my favorite film, "Jungle Fever" had the best soundtrack. youtu.be/xz0BkbjIAxg?...

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  • Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.comBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    every Sunday, my friends and I do "Spike Lee Sunday" where we watch a Spike Lee movie. (before that, we had Wes Anderson Wednesday) today's watch is Jungle Fever and i am once again blown away by Lee's creative intro credits

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  • Ms Trinidad’s Smooth Baby Thigh @tamaracharese.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs Day 3 #filmsky #movies #JungleFever

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  • Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.comBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    Usually when I write an anniversary piece, I don't change my mind much about the movie in question. But when I wrote about JUNGLE FEVER for the Playlist, I came away newly appreciating it as an Altman-esque tapestry of early-'90s Brooklyn: theplaylist.net/spike-lee-ju...

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  • Kate Armstrong @brainchain.caBluesky · May 10, 2024

    1961- The Children’s Hour 1971 (a GREAT film year) - can’t choose Shaft-Dirty Harry-French Connection 1981- Stripes / Time Bandits 1991- Dogfight / Jungle Fever

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  • Shirley Chisholm (again) @anickel4thought.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    Naming a movie Jungle Fever is actually INSANE STOP LETTING SPIKE LEE GET AWAY WITH HIS CRIMES

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  • Andrew Eisen @andreweisen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    The title is so long that I only have room to tell you that Movie Mandates wraps up Parody Month with DON’T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD. Thank goodness the Wayans Bros. relegated “Higher Learning,” “Poetic Justice,” and “Jungle Fever” to the film’s tagline!

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  • Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    it’s from the very end of the movie “Jungle Fever”

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  • Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2025

    MUSIC FROM THE MOVIE "JUNGLE FEVER" (1991) Not much that's memorable here, though it's well produced and achieves an impressive breadth of styles. The jazzy Make Sure You're Sure is quite different to most things in his back catalogue, and the best thing here.

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  • Neon Splatter @neonsplatter.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    Trailer Trash: JUNGLE FEVER (1991) Preview for Spike Lee’s movie about family, interracial relationships, and a lot more. www.neonsplatter.com/trailer-tras...

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  • Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    Maybe not my favorite movie but his performance in Jungle Fever is AMAZING.

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  • Writers’ Loom @writersloom.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2025

    Aside, I was shown Jungle Fever in high school (!) by a well-meaning English instructor who taught a solitary film course. This was a Catholic institution, mind you, so—however comparatively liberal the school’s Jesuit spirit—this teacher was rather risking his neck for kind of a subpar movie.

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  • ChristofPierson @christofpierson.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    The first movie I noticed how great an actor he is was Jungle Fever.

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  • Kevin The Critic @kevinthecritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    I saw most of “Jungle Fever” a few nights ago. While I’ll withhold my thoughts on the overall film until I’ve finished it, Ernest Dickerson’s cinematography is engaging to the eye and appropriately intimate. He also shot the beautiful-looking “Malcolm X”. Kudos to Dickerson for his work on both.

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  • Boneless Wings…Lover @coachd21.blacksky.appBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    Happy birthday to Spike!!! I think any list of his best films should include Jungle Fever. That’s just me this. It’s great storytelling and has a unique perspective. Plus it has one of the best soundtracks of any film.

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  • 🏳️‍⚧️Serena, neet in spirit and mind🏳️‍⚧️ @allstarserena.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    Is Jungle Fever a good movie?

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  • Dyron_rises (pronounced as "dye-ren") @rollwithren7.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    Favorite SLJ movie is Pulp Fiction and favorite SLJ performance is Gator in Jungle Fever. Not sure if this would be considered lesser known, I recommend The Great White Hype, which is one of his comedic performances.

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  • Him Hardaway Sr @bklynbee.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    yall truly don’t put enough respect on Spikes name for what he did with Jungle Fever! the story, cinematography, timing of its release… MasterClass film making 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #movies #SpikeLee #BlackSky #90s

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  • James Casey @zonnero.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2024

    Name a black and white film... Jungle Fever.

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  • Stephen Gillespie @stephenage.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    Jungle Fever a very interesting movie!

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  • Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2023

    "Spike Lee is telling me the story of how he had to convince Frank Sinatra to let him use his music for Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. Apparently, Ol’ Blue Eyes was upset about one of the film-maker’s earlier movies, Do the Right Thing."

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  • Trey aka Norman Osborn’s 360 waves @trey-swindu744.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Sam Jackson as Gator in Jungle Fever is another film example of how fucked up the crack epidemic was too!

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  • Evil Lex @lextherapy.blacksky.appBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    I also saw Halle Berry. Now her acting ability is open to your opinion but to say she plays herself in every movie? The lady who was in Dorothy Dandridge, BAPS, Gothika, Losing Isaiah, Mission Impossible, Jungle Fever, Boomerang, The Rich Man’s Wife, Monster’s Ball, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, etc?

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  • Christopher Rhodes / TEN Comics @tencomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    What's a movie where the B plot stands out above the A plot? For me it's Jungle Fever, an interesting movie about interracial dating and an excellent movie about drug addiction starring Samuel L. Jackson and Halle Berry doing some of the best acting of their illustrious careers.

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  • The Filmography @filmogpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    It's #FilmographyFriday and this week we look at 1991's JUNGLE FEVER. We'll talk the attraction of the other, how relationship movies don't get made anymore, and the power of one of the greatest performances ever caught on film. Find us on your favourite podcast app. #SpikeLee

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  • beeblePete @beeblepete.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    '90 – '94 was an exciting time to learn film. NC-17 replaced the X rating, Crying Game, Priscilla, Jungle Fever, Wong Foo and Raise The Red Lantern came out, and we read the following new text. It really did seem then like our species was ready to accept the full spectrum of humanity. 🎬

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  • Nubia @nubianiles.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    Ah, so you do know what race is, just not when it built your empire. Pointing out how colonizers fetishized the people they conquered isn’t racism, Hank, it’s history. “Jungle Fever” is a movie. Keep showing how much you don’t know.

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  • Zach Ralston @zachralston.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Shout out to Spike Lee giving Halle Berry her first movie role as a hot crack head in Jungle Fever.

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  • FINEWINE @finestwinest.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2025

    I've never seen Jungle Fever, but Kim Coles says that the basis of the show was all from this ONE scene in that movie then they showed some of the scene for reference. They basically redid that scene in the pilot, when they talked about married men

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  • wshof.bsky.social @wshof.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    Her most popular releases include: "In Love: A Jazz Instrumental", "Trippin", "Selfish", and "Make Sure You're Sure" from the Stevie Wonder produced soundtrack for the film Jungle Fever.

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  • Classic McDavid @henchman21.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Jungle Fever was considered to be a WILDLY controversial movie in 1991. Like, people were flipping the fuck OUT!

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  • Red Georges @redgeorges.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990) Peacock - An okay film, but a terrific cast headlined by Denzel keeps its head above water. 3/5 “Jungle Fever” (1991) VOD - Didn't love the third act, but still a solid movie overall. Film debuts for both Halle Berry and Queen Latifah. 3.5/5

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  • Pierre Dupont 📽️ (He/Him) @pierrejdupont.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    #Movies🎬#Filmsky🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 19 Jungle Fever (1991) A Spike Lee Joint

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  • Alex Lynch @alexlynch.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    JUNGLE FEVER - This is a terrific film from Spike Lee with brilliant performances from everyone - Halle Berry is in it in what I think was her first role and she's nuts. My God though, what a tonal shift in the second half. It starts out much lighter and amusing but then it gets bleak. (Post 2/4)

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  • Alex Lynch @alexlynch.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    JUNGLE FEVER - This is a terrific film from Spike Lee with brilliant performances from everyone - Halle Berry is in it in what I think was her first role and she's nuts. My God though, what a tonal shift in the second half. It starts out much lighter and amusing but the second half is bleak.

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