Loving Jezebel (1999)

Interesting facts

Loving Jezebel is a 1999 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Kwyn Bader. The film stars Hill Harper, David Moscow, Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Sandrine Holt, Phylicia Rashad, Elisa Donovan and Lysa Aya Trenier. The film was released on October 27, 2000, by Universal Focus. The film tells the story of a young man who reminisces about his romantic misadventures.

Production

The screenplay for the film was written by writer-director Kwyn Bader in his New York apartment on 86th Street and Broadway. The film’s title is inspired by the Sade song "Jezebel", which Bader was playing the night he started typing the screenplay.

With Nicole Ari Parker as the first actor attached to the script and David Lancaster taking on the role of producer, rights to the screenplay were acquired in 1998 by Starz! Encore at the International Film Financing Conference (IFFCON) in San Francisco where the screenplay had been selected for inclusion as one of the best independent screenplays in the United States that year.

The film was shot on location in New York City.

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