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Love & Basketball

2000 · 125 min

A warm, earnest romance that unfolds like a long game, balancing athletic ambition with tender, complicated love.

Directed by
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring
Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard
Tagline
All's fair in love and basketball.
Overview
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall 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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Directed by
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring
Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard
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Tone
  • romanticstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • ambition
  • identity
  • family
  • race
Places
  • big city
  • school
  • home
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance8
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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