Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Spike Lee
Written by	Spike Lee
Produced by	Spike Lee
Starring	Wesley Snipes Annabella Sciorra Spike Lee Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Samuel L. Jackson Lonette McKee John Turturro Frank Vincent Anthony Quinn
Cinematography	Ernest Dickerson
Edited by	Sam Pollard
Music by	Terence Blanchard (score) Stevie Wonder (songs)
Production company	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 7, 1991 (1991-06-07)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12.5–14 million[1]
Box office	$43.9 million[1]

Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. Starring Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Tim Robbins, Brad Dourif, Giancarlo Esposito, Debi Mazar, Michael Imperioli, Anthony Quinn, and Halle Berry and Queen Latifah in their film debuts, 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. The film received positive reviews, with particular praise for Samuel L. Jackson's performance, and was also commercially successful.