Jungle Fever
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.
Genres
Drama, Romance
Studio
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Language
en
Status
Released
How Jungle Fever performed
Budget
$14.0M
Worldwide Gross
$32.5M
Gross Profit
$18.5M
Return
2.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
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Wesley Snipes
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Angie Tucci
Annabella Sciorra
Angie Tucci
Cyrus
Spike Lee
Cyrus
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Ossie Davis
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Lucinda Purify
Ruby Dee
Lucinda Purify
Gator Purify
Samuel L. Jackson
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Drew
Lonette McKee
Drew
Pauline Carbone
John Turturro
Pauline Carbone
Mike Tucci
Frank Vincent
Mike Tucci
Lou Carbone
Anthony Quinn
Lou Carbone
Vivian
Halle Berry
Vivian
Orin Goode
Tyra Ferrell
Orin Goode
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