Love Jones

3/14/19971h 48m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ 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.

Director:

Theodore Witcher

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$10,000,000.00

Revenue:

$12,782,749.00

Key words:

ex-boyfriend
romantic

Cast

Larenz Tate

~ as ~

Darius Lovehall

Nia Long

~ as ~

Nina Mosley

Isaiah Washington

~ as ~

Savon Garrison

Bill Bellamy

~ as ~

Hollywood

Lisa Nicole Carson

~ as ~

Josie Nichols

Marie-Françoise Theodore

~ as ~

Tracey Powell

Khalil Kain

~ as ~

Marvin Cox

Leonard Roberts

~ as ~

Eddie Coles

Bernadette Speakes

~ as ~

Sheila Downes

Kahil El'Zabar

~ as ~

Percussionist

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Reviews (1)

GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
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 other dialogue driven movies...and it didn't pull off the humor either.

It did, however, develop characters very well, so it gets 3 Stars for great characters. But I just can't give it any more. The characters weren't eccentric enough to be appealing, they were just...normal. Normal would have worked if there was more of a plot, more of a goal.

Instead it felt like talking about your relationship with your girlfriend and then relating that conversation with your friends with no real direction and no one really entertaining and abnormal enough to latch onto.