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Love Jones

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Love Jones (1997)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:10

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: After an immediate infatuation (the titular "jones") blossoms between a once-bitten Chicagoan woman and a slick spoken-word artist, they've got to find a way to maintain their relationship.... After an immediate infatuation (the titular "jones") blossoms between a once-bitten Chicagoan woman and a slick spoken-word artist, they've got to find a way to maintain their relationship. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival. [More]

Starring: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson

Starring: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy

Director: Theodore Witcher

Director: Theodore Witcher
Composer: Darryl Jones
Producer: Julia Chasman, Jay Stern, Amy Henkels, Helena Echegoyen, Nick Wechsler, Jeremiah Samuels
Screenwriter: Theodore Witcher

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Larenz Tate, who played a homicidal in Menace II Spciety and haunted Vietnam vet in Dead Presidents, became an important transitional figure in the new black middle-class cinema, beginning this film, in which he's cast as a sophisticated and urbane man

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Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
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An uncommonly smart and insightful look at relationships while delivering the requisite laughs and romantic heat.

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Michael Dequina
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Susan Tavernetti
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly

love jones strives to be smart and sophisticated, which isn't exactly the same thing as intelligent ...

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The two leads click throughout in a movie that's just good enough to engender curiosity over filmmaker Witcher's follow-up effort.

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