Love Jones (1997)

R03/14/1997Comedy, Drama, Romance1h 48m
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Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.

Overview

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Larenz Tate

    Darius Lovehall

  2. Cast 1

    Nia Long

    Nina Mosley

  3. Cast 1

    Isaiah Washington

    Savon Garrison

  4. Cast 1

    Bill Bellamy

    Hollywood

  5. Cast 1

    Lisa Nicole Carson

    Josie Nichols

  6. Cast 1

    Marie-Françoise Theodore

    Tracey Powell

  7. Cast 1

    Khalil Kain

    Marvin Cox

  8. Cast 1

    Leonard Roberts

    Eddie Coles

  9. Bernadette Speakes

    Sheila Downes

I'm sorry. I heard about it on the radio and decided to give it a watch...but I am sorry, I just don't get it. I kind of want to relate it to movies like 12 Angry Men and other dialogue driven flicks...Fall from I think the same year...but this was just...bland. What you have here are people sitting around talking about sex. You have people walking around talking about their relationship. Before Sunrise did kind of the same thing, but throughout you had the feeling of love that would be lost. This didn't really pull off that emotion. It also didn't pull off the tension in many othe...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$10,000,000.00

Revenue $12,782,749.00

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