You probably don't remember what you were doing on June 7, You may not even have been born yet. But for Hollywood and anyone looking to have a dialogue about race relations, it was an important day. It's when Spike Lee's Jungle Fever opened in theatres. Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, Lee delved into the politics of interracial dating. Wesley Snipes plays the married Black lover to Annabella Sciorra's Italian-American Brooklynite, and both catch flak from family, friends, and strangers.
Jungle Fever & 10 Other Films That Have Tackled Interracial Relationships
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Skip navigation! You probably don't remember what you were doing on June 7, You may not even have been born yet. But for Hollywood and anyone looking to have a dialogue about race relations, it was an important day.
Jungle Fever is a American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. 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 s. Together, they have a young daughter, Ming Veronica Timbers.
That boy was Yusuf Hawkins. Hawkins was a 16 year old teenager when he was killed in the predominately Italian American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in Hawkins and his friends went to Bensonhurst to inquire about a car that was for sale. While there, they were attacked by a mob of Italian men who incorrectly suspected that Hawkins was dating a white girl in the neighborhood. The real life incident set the tone for this fictional movie.