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Love and Basketball
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Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Over the years, the two begin to fall for each other, but their separate paths to basketball stardom threaten to pull them apart.
Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Over the years, the two begin to fall for each other, but their separate paths to basketball stardom threaten to pull them apart.
Actors:
Julio Ledezma,
Afton Thompson,
Colleen Matsuhara,
Erika Ringor,
Kara Brock,
Chevana Player,
R. Lewis Blake,
Major Dennis,
Sabrina Roberson,
Django C. Porter,
Steve Spencer
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Julio Ledezma
Afton Thompson
Colleen Matsuhara
Erika Ringor
23 December 1974, Inglewood, California, USA
Kara Brock
29 March 1974, Long Beach, California, USA
Chevana Player
R. Lewis Blake
July 12, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Major Dennis
Sabrina Roberson
Django C. Porter
Steve Spencer
Country:
United States
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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.
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The surprise element here is that the film takes Monica's career, and her love of the game, as seriously, probably more seriously, than it does Quincy's.
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An unusual but engaging mix of the overwrought and the understated, a picture that, at two hours plus, keeps threatening to overstay its welcome and yet always pulls us back into its conversational orbit.
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Thanks to Spike Lee's production company for giving a talented newcomer a good start.
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Satisfying, enjoyable and smart.
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It's a fine example of a conventionally made picture which follows all the rules yet still emerges as fresh and original.
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Good romance, but strong sexuality for a PG-13.
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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.
