10.0
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Jonesing: When Love Is a Habit (2025)
Jonesing: When Love Is a Habit (2025)
Overview
Romance drama directed by Sixx King. Simone Love, a college poet and photographer raised amid her parents' celebrated romance, confronts their marriage's collapse while forming a bond with transfer athlete Myles Cole. Starring Sajda Waite as Simone and Kamaj Nixon Myers as Myles, with Aaria, Violet Bennett, and Elijah Bey in supporting roles.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
10.0
Overview
Romance drama directed by Sixx King. Simone Love, a college poet and photographer raised amid her parents' celebrated romance, confronts their marriage's collapse while forming a bond with transfer athlete Myles Cole. Starring Sajda Waite as Simone and Kamaj Nixon Myers as Myles, with Aaria, Violet Bennett, and Elijah Bey in supporting roles.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's focus on personal emotional struggles and romantic connections in a Black family context lacks explicit ideological advocacy, centering instead on individual growth and relational authenticity as the path to redemption.
The film features a predominantly Black cast in lead and supporting roles, providing visible diversity without altering traditionally white characters. Its narrative addresses personal relationships and identity in a balanced way, without centering critiques of conventional identities.
Secondary
The narrative frames the collapse of a 25-year marriage as a disillusioning yet transformative event for the daughter, questioning the ideal of lifelong commitment. Divorce emerges not as failure but as an opportunity for personal reckoning and new relational possibilities.
The film contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on a young woman's heterosexual relationship and family dynamics in a Black love narrative.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The story centers on a young woman's romantic journey and artistic pursuits, drawing from her parents' legacy, with no elements addressing transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film presents original characters in a romantic drama without adaptation from source material featuring canonical genders, resulting in no gender swaps.
Jonesing: When Love Is a Habit presents original characters in a story inspired by Love Jones, including the daughter of its Black protagonists, all portrayed by Black actors consistent with the source film's racial canon.
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