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Searching all over Harlem, Flipper eventually finds him in a crack house and exasperatedly disowns him.

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Later, Flipper's crack-addicted brother Gator steals and sells Lucinda's TV for crack. Angie, although upset, accepts that the relationship has run its course. Echoing what Cyrus told him earlier, Flipper tells Angie their relationship has been based on sexual racial myths and not love. The couple's issues are compounded by Flipper's feelings for his family and Angie wanting to have children of her own, causing their split. Flipper and Angie move into an apartment in Greenwich Village, where they encounter discrimination for being a mixed-race couple, such as being insulted by a waitress named LaShawn, chastisement from The Good Reverend, and financial issues.Īfter some play fighting, Flipper gets restrained by two policemen ( the same ones who killed Radio Raheem two years prior) who receive a call that he was attacking Angie. Later, Mike severely beats Angie after discovering that she is dating a black man and kicks her out of their home.Īt Drew's workplace, Flipper attempts to reconcile, but Drew kicks him out, feeling he was only attracted to her for being half-white and that Flipper was searching for a white woman as he was a successful black man. Flipper moves in with his father, Southern Baptist preacher The Good Reverend Purify, and his mother, Lucinda Purify. Angie's friends are equally disparaging when she tells them she is having a relationship with a black man.ĭrew learns about Flipper's affair through Cyrus's wife Vera and throws him out of their home. Cyrus refers to his situation as 'jungle fever'-an attraction borne of sexualized racial myths rather than love-and Flipper asks Cyrus not to tell anyone.

He resigns, having plans to start his own firm.Įventually, Flipper admits his infidelity to his longtime friend, Cyrus, who criticizes him not for his infidelity towards his wife, but for his affair with a white woman. The next day, Flipper demands his superiors, Jerry and Leslie, promote him to partner, but he is denied. Meanwhile, Angie feels suffocated at home.Īfter working several late nights together, Flipper and Angie have sex, beginning a tumultuous relationship. Angie's quiet fiancé Paulie runs a corner grocery store and lives with his elderly widowed father Lou. Initially upset at being the only black person, he relents after being told hiring is based on ability, not race.Īngie lives in Bensonhurst with her abusive father Mike and her brothers Charlie and Jimmy.

At work, Flipper discovers that an Italian-American woman named Angie Tucci has been hired as his temp secretary. Successful Harlem architect Flipper Purify lives with his wife Drew, a buyer at Bloomingdales, and their young daughter, Ming. The film received positive reviews, with particular praise for Samuel L. Jungle Fever explores the beginning and end of an extramarital interracial relationship against the urban backdrop of the streets of New York City in the early 1990s. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Halle Berry (in her film debut), Tim Robbins, Brad Dourif, Queen Latifah, Michael Imperioli, and Anthony Quinn, and is Lee's fifth feature-length film. The film stars Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee.

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