Love & Basketball
All's fair in love and basketball.
All's fair in love and basketball.
Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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2000
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Quincy McCall and Monica Wright grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
124 min
Release date:
21 Apr 2000
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$20,000,000
Revenue:
$27,728,118
Awards:
13 wins & 15 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Mawkishly heartfelt, but actress Sanaa Lathan performs as if she were lit from within.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
Satisfying, enjoyable and smart.
– Louis B. Parks,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Jul 2005
fresh:
Stylishly shot and bursting with visual and sexual energy, this is confident black women's film-making and an eloquent tribute to the girl with the permanently grazed knees -- and about time too.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
The pic is so well directed and lead performance by Sanaa Lathan so charismatic that audiences will overlook the script's flaws and root for the central duo.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
26 Mar 2007
fresh:
Told largely from the point of view of the woman, this career-versus-love story still develops the perspective of the man persuasively, as Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps reveal their characters' motives with nuances of expression that transcend the dialogue.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
26 Mar 2007