1. Review: Love & Basketball (2000) - viewinder
Apr 21, 2000 · Gina Prince-Bythewood has written and directed a unique, lovely and important romantic drama, with its own imagery of intimacy.
Lovely and important – but maybe one thing could be fixed.
2. Love & Basketball movie review (2000) - Roger Ebert
"Love & Basketball" is about how you can either be in love or play basketball, but it's tricky to do both at the same time. It may be unique among sports.
"Love & Basketball" is about how you can either be in love or play basketball, but it's tricky to do both at the same time. It may be unique among sports
3. 'Love & Basketball' -- an oral history of the film that changed the game
Apr 21, 2020 · He worked with New Line Cinema on "Bamboozled," also released in 2000.) ... love story or a basketball movie?" I realized it's a love story ...
"Love & Basketball" lead Monica Wright challenged her partner, sport and status quo without being painted as a shrew, undesirable or any other limiting descriptor. To mark its 20th anniversary, the cast, crew and WNBA players speak on the film's legacy.
4. Love & Basketball, 2000 (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood) - Cinema Fanatic
Nov 14, 2014 · The film tells the story of two best friends – Monica and Quincy – from when they first met as children and then over the next 25 or so years of ...
Somehow I missed this film when it was first in theaters and just saw it for the first time a few weeks back at a screening at the Cinefamily with writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood in attendanc…
5. Love & Basketball | Rotten Tomatoes
"Love & Basketball" is a slam-dunk romance film, intertwining the love story of childhood friends Monica and Quincy with their passion for basketball. Sanaa ...
Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Quincy, whose father, Zeke (Dennis Haysbert), plays for the Los Angeles Clippers, is a natural talent and a born leader. Monica is ferociously competitive but sometimes becomes overly emotional on the court. Over the years, the two begin to fall for each other, but their separate paths to basketball stardom threaten to pull them apart.
6. Love & Basketball | Wexner Center for the Arts
Love & Basketball follows a sports-fueled, on-again, off-again romance from childhood to the pros between Monica Wright and Quincy McCall.
Love & Basketball follows a sports-fueled, on-again, off-again romance from childhood to the pros between Monica Wright and Quincy McCall (played...
7. Love & Basketball — Liara Tamani | The On Being Project - OnBeing
Mar 23, 2021 · Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball tells the story of two talented athletes who weave in and out of each other's lives as they pursue big ...
“When you’re a kid, you see the life you want, and it never crosses your mind that it’s not gonna turn out that way.”
8. Love & Basketball (2000), PG-13 - Norton Simon Museum
Mar 4, 2023 · Love & Basketball (2000), PG-13 ... This beloved feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood elevates the coming-of-age romance by ...
This beloved feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood elevates the coming-of-age romance by exploring the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn’t see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps make for an iconic screen couple as basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games and drift in and out of each other’s lives as they pursue their twin aspirations of playing professionally. Love & Basketball captures the intoxicating passions, heartbreaking setbacks and sky-high ambitions that mark a young woman’s journey to the top of her game and to lasting love.
9. Love & Basketball | Moviepedia - Fandom
Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and ...
Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) have wanted to be professional basketball stars since they were kids. Monica wanted to play for the Los Angeles Lakers and wear Magic Johnson's number: 32 & Quincy wanted to be like his father and play for the Clippers. However, Monica has to work hard to establish herself while Quincy was born with natural star potential.
10. Love and Basketball Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Love & Basketball is a 2000 coming-of-age romance that follows a relationship between childhood neighbors through the ups and downs of their lives on and off ...
Romance and sports mix; some strong language and sex. Read Common Sense Media's Love and Basketball review, age rating, and parents guide.
11. [PDF] LOVE AND BASKETBALL BY GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD
Her mom reads a book. Also in the stands, the HEAD. COACH OF THE TENNESSEE LADY VOLS, PAT SUMMIT. A fine-ass BROTHER leans in the doorway, sporting a letter.
12. Love & Basketball | SBIFF - Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Jan 12, 2021 · ... film, 2000's “Love & Basketball.” Prince-Bythewood said, “With 'Love ... novel, and premiered at that year's Sundance Film Festival.
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13. How "Love & Basketball" Changed The Way Black Audiences Saw ...
May 17, 2015 · In 2000, this romantic drama about two young black basketball stars in love ... Advertisement. In Love & Basketball, the actual love story between
In 2000, this romantic drama about two young black basketball stars in love broke ground by daring to not make itself about race. Fifteen years later, the cast and director talk to BuzzFeed News about the movie's legacy of promoting gender equality, black affluence, and the fine art of faking a layup.
14. Love & Basketball - Cinema Sips
... Liz Locke Books · Dramas. Love & Basketball. February 12, 2024 February 10, 2024 LizLocke. Image credit: Love & Basketball, 2000. When I watch a movie ...
Image credit: Love & Basketball, 2000 When I watch a movie with ‘love’ in the title, I always hope it’s going to trigger the same kind of feeling I get from reading romance novels. When a story…
15. Love & Basketball (2000) - Letterboxd
All's fair in love and basketball. Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into ...
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.
16. Quarantine Black Movie Marathon Day 4: Love & Basketball (2000)
Mar 24, 2020 · I am a big fan of the structure of this movie. Splitting the film into “quarters” was a great means of moving through the story in a way that ...
It finally happened. I watched Love & Basketball.
17. Love & Basketball | Blank Check with Griffin and David Wiki | Fandom
Aug 9, 2020 · This week's all about Love and Basketball (2000), which would set the tone for her career. But what's the story that led her there? Carl Tart ( ...
Love & Basketball is episode 284 focusing on the film of the same name and the first in the miniseries Pod & Basketcast. Posted August 9, 2020. It’s rare we get to start a mini-series with a classic. 20 years after its release, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s directorial debut still stands the test of time as a top-tier cinematic love story. This week’s all about Love and Basketball (2000), which would set the tone for her career. But what’s the story that led her there? Carl Tart (The Good Place, Comed
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19. Love & Basketball in 4K - Academy Museum
... 2000 release, beloved by many millennials who believe in the power of love and of basketball. Set in South Central Los Angeles, the film tells a love story ...
Added to the National Film Registry in 2023, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s directorial debut feature, Love & Basketball, has become a cult classic over the years since its 2000 release
