The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes57%
Metacritic78/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
327 audience votes
Key crew
- Spike LeeDirector
- Terence BlanchardOriginal Music Composer
- Stevie WonderOriginal Music Composer
- Spike LeeWriter
Cast
- Wesley SnipesFlipper Purify
- Annabella SciorraAngie Tucci
- Spike LeeCyrus
- Ossie DavisReverend Purify
- Ruby DeeLucinda Purify
- Samuel L. JacksonGator Purify
- Lonette McKeeDrew
- John TurturroPauline Carbone
- Frank VincentMike Tucci
- Anthony QuinnLou Carbone
- Halle BerryVivian
- Tyra FerrellOrin Goode
Stills
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Themes
new york cityarchitectforbidden loveinterracial relationshipxenophobiacrack addictfrustrated
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