He Got Game
Convincing his son, Jesus, a famous basketball player, to join collage, is the only condition to have his freedom and to be released from prison, Jake Shuttlesworth, who murders his wife brutally, struggles against convincing him, as he has only one week to do that or he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
7 October 1975, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
20 October 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 March 1976, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 October 1961, Yonkers, New York, USA
18 April 1955, USA
2 March 1937, San Fernando, California, USA
12 July 1972, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
4 July 1947, The Bronx, New York, USA
6 March 1972, Newark, New Jersey, USA
28 December 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1941, Griffin, Georgia, USA
17 February 1936, St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
20 February 1968, Toledo, Ohio, USA
16 June 1985, New Jersey, USA
7 December 1943, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
20 February 1963, Leeds, Alabama, USA
13 December 1967, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1950, Biltmore, North Carolina, USA
9 February 1974, Rochester, New York, USA
April 09, 2005
Lee paints intimate characters who are about more than the game. Themes of integrity, honesty, loyalty and familial love are woven through the film resulting in a complex, thought-provoking human drama.
June 28, 2004
Shrewdly exposes the underbelly of college recruiting and the pressures exerted on talented high school basketball stars.
June 07, 2004
Flawed but powerful.
March 25, 2008
Lee's attack on how big business is not only ruining the game he loves but also playing with people's lives is direct and brave, while his passion, insight and intelligence are evident and admirable.
March 25, 2007
As usual, Lee tries many kinds of stylistic effects and uses wall-to-wall music (by Aaron Copland and Public Enemy); what's different this time is how personally driven the story feels.
January 07, 2009
A long, boring, meandering, dog of a movie.
February 09, 2006
Most scenes play too long, with a surplus of ideas, textures, tones and characters, and after 134 minutes it's clear Lee's problem with closure hasn't gone away.
April 27, 2007
At the end of Mr. Lee's movie, all you feel is the distraction of Mr. Lee's stylistic exhibitionism, without which, I concede, he might not be regarded as a genius in some quarters.
March 25, 2007
Though too long by a good half hour, Lee's latest film packs a genuine emotional punch.
March 25, 2007
[Lee] gets a charming performance from Allen, who, in his acting debut, occupies his pedestal with grace and diffidence.
June 18, 2002
Washington's Jake Shuttlesworth looks tough and hard, an odd but refreshing turn for an actor long associated with handsomely heroic roles.
March 25, 2008
Lacking the moral indignation and militant politics of Lee's former work, this vibrantly colorful father-son melodrama is soft at the center, but it's one of the most accessible films Lee has made and Denzel Washington is terrific.
