Love & Basketball

Love & Basketball

7.3IMDb Score
Released:2000-04-21
Duration:125 min
Director:Gina Prince-Bythewood
Actors:Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Chris Warren, Kyla Pratt, Alfre Woodard
Production:40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, New Line Cinema

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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