Love and Basketball
Quincy McCall and Monica Wright grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school, with Monica's edge and Quincy's top-dog attitude separating them, except when Quincy's parents argue and he climbs through Monica's window to sleep on the floor. 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.
19 September 1971, New York City, New York, USA
29 June 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 July 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 October 1973, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
29 March 1974, Long Beach, California, USA
July 12, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 September 1956, Dunn, North Carolina, USA
9 June 1939, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
27 November 1916, Aurora, Illinois, USA
8 March 1973, Vienna, Austria
29 January 1977, Pittsburg, California, USA
April 09, 2005
Thanks to Spike Lee's production company for giving a talented newcomer a good start.
December 03, 2002
It's a fine example of a conventionally made picture which follows all the rules yet still emerges as fresh and original.
October 21, 2002
Prince-Bythewood, a first-time feature filmmaker out of UCLA's film school, tells a story that is at once warm and heartfelt -- and often funny as well.
August 07, 2008
This romantic drama from writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood is well-acted.
July 21, 2005
Satisfying, enjoyable and smart.
January 01, 2011
Good romance, but strong sexuality for a PG-13.
August 07, 2004
Mawkishly heartfelt, but actress Sanaa Lathan performs as if she were lit from within.
March 26, 2007
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.
March 24, 2008
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.
June 24, 2006
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.
December 23, 2002
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.
March 26, 2007
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.
