Love Lessons From Our Favorite Spike Lee Joints

“Jungle Fever”

“Make sure you’re sure.”

Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) had it all. A good job, a loving wife and a beautiful little girl. But he jeopardized all of that when he decided to sleep with his temporary secretary, Angela Tucci (Annabella Sciorra). Stepping out on your wife is one thing but the fact that his mistress happened to be white added insult to injury for several of the black women in the movie. When his wife, Drew (Lonette McKee) who has her own color issues being a biracial woman, learns of his affair she is too through. Throwing his clothes out of the couple’s Harlem apartment.  Flipper continues to see Angela and the couple try to make it work, even moving into an apartment together. But things get waaay too heavy as Angela’s Italian father cannot fathom having a “n*gger lover” for a daughter. He beats the mess out of her and puts her out of his house. Flipper catches flack from other blacks in Harlem when he brings Angela around and is almost arrested when the police think he’s raping Angela when the two are fooling around in the street. At the end of the day Flipper realized what he and Angela had was a little less than a love thang because when stuff started hitting the fan the brotha had to be out.