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Loving Jezebel

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Loving Jezebel

R

Released Aug 5, 1999

1h 26m

Romance

Comedy

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33%

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27 Reviews

47%

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500+ Ratings

One cannot spend a whole lifetime loving and chasing "Jezebels" and expect to escape unscathed. That's the price Theodorus Melville has to pay for something he never went looking for, but that came to him. All he ever wanted was someone to call his own, but God cursed him with other men's women. It's what's put him in his present predicament. Now a husband of one of the "Jezebels" wants to kill Theo.

Critics Consensus

The script is cliched and badly written. The female characters aren't believable, and the movie is not funny.

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Elvis Mitchell

New York Times

It's hard to dislike a romantic comedy that's infatuated with the concept of love.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 1, 2000

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Jessica Winter

Village Voice

An oafish wish-fulfillment wankfest.

Jan 1, 2000

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Gene Seymour

Newsday

[Bader] needs encouragement. And bears watching.

Jan 1, 2000

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Film Threat

Rated: 3/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Aug 12, 2005

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Merle Bertrand

Film Threat

A lighthearted and frothy romantic comedy; a fun and amusing diversion, but little more.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 8, 2002

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Audience Member

unpleasing and slow-kind of a snoozer.just fair at best.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Sweet movie with lots of cool.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

It was a cool movie. I love Hill Harper as an actor. I really liked this movie. You actually felt sorry for the character eventhough you knew that his actions were wrong. It like that way they incorporated the different races in order to show that love doesn't see color.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

so so rom-com no bette davis eyes:(

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Its a quaint and corny story that was a pleasure to watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

Sometimes entertaining, but is as a package a bit innocuous and lightweight, or, less nicely, its an oafish wish-fulfillment wankfest.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Synopsis

One cannot spend a whole lifetime loving and chasing "Jezebels" and expect to escape unscathed. That's the price Theodorus Melville has to pay for something he never went looking for, but that came to him. All he ever wanted was someone to call his own, but God cursed him with other men's women. It's what's put him in his present predicament. Now a husband of one of the "Jezebels" wants to kill Theo.

Director: Kwyn Bader
Producer: David Lancaster
Screenwriter: Kwyn Bader
Distributor: Overseas FilmGroup, Universal Focus, Shooting Gallery, The Shooting Gallery
Production Co: Lancaster Productions, Starz! Encore Entertainment, Blackout Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Sexuality)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 5, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $69.5K
Runtime: 1h 26m