Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Larenz TateDarius Lovehall
- Nia LongNina Mosley
- Isaiah WashingtonSavon Garrison
- Bill BellamyHollywood
- Lisa Nicole CarsonJosie Nichols
- Marie-Françoise TheodoreTracey Powell
- Khalil KainMarvin Cox
- Leonard RobertsEddie Coles
- Bernadette SpeakesSheila Downes
Recommandations
- 80
TV Guide Magazine
Sexy and soulful like the smoothest slow jam, writer-director Theodore Witcher's debut feature is a classy, surprisingly accomplished romantic comedy focusing on life and love among of a group of young African-American Chicagoans. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Many love stories contrive to get their characters together at the end. This one contrives, not to keep them apart, but to bring them to a bittersweet awareness that is above simple love. Some audience members would probably prefer a romantic embrace in the sunset, as the music swells. But "Love Jones'' is too smart for that. - 75
ReelViews
Anyone who enjoys well-executed romances will find a lot to like about this film, but it lacks the strength of originality evident in those movies that inhabit the genre's top echelon. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
There is a point of view here, a rather strong one. It may sound like slight praise, but Love Jones is a movie that is exactly what it wants to be, and that's an achievement in a homogenized, test-marketed vanilla-movie landscape. - 75
Boston Globe
It's funky and funny, not just sleek, riding witty repartee that makes it seem an extension of the fizzy, romantic comedies of the '30s (as well as the Harlem Renaissance, invoked by its poetry club scenes). [14 Mar 1977, p.C1] - 70
The New York Times
Slinky, sexy Love Jones brings new life to an old story: a courtship and all its predictable detours on the road to romance, with a boy-meets-girl inexorability along the way to love. - 70
Variety
Although it becomes a bit contrived and conventional toward the end, writer-director Theodore Witcher's debut feature shows quite a few good moves, and Larenz Tate and Nia Long make an attractively hot couple at its center. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Still, even when the plot sags, the erotic moodiness of Love Jones remains fresh.
