Love Jones

"Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over."

1997 1h 49m EN

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7.4

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★7.4TMDB · 78

ComedyDramaRomance

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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.

“Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.”

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Cast

Larenz Tate
Darius Lovehall
Nia Long
Nina Mosley
Isaiah Washington
Savon Garrison
Bill Bellamy
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Lisa Nicole Carson
Josie Nichols
Marie-Françoise Theodore
Tracey Powell
Khalil Kain
Marvin Cox
Leonard Roberts
Eddie Coles

Credits

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Director: Theodore Witcher
Writers: Theodore Witcher, Aum Mu Ra
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Theodore Witcher, shot by Ernest Holzman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Darryl Jones. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Maysie Hoy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 8

RUNTIME

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Larenz Tate and Nia Long and Isaiah Washington carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Marketing tagline: "Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0119572 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 78 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Theodore Witcher directs. Ernest Holzman behind the camera. Darryl Jones scores. Maysie Hoy cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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129 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Theodore Witcher, shot by Ernest Holzman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Darryl Jones. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Maysie Hoy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Larenz Tate and Nia Long and Isaiah Washington carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.".
7IMDB entry: tt0119572 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 78 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ernest Holzman
Original score: Darryl Jones
Editing: Maysie Hoy
Production design: Roger G. Fortune
Costume design: Shawn Barton
Makeup / hair: Cat'Ania McCoy-Howze
Sound: Larry Blake
Runtime: 109 min · 1h 49m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $10,000,000
Box office: $12,782,749
Return: 128% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Love Jones (1997)

Awards

Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

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GenerationofSwine2023-01-14
★ 6/10
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.

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