Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 15 nominations
Chris Warren
- Kelvin
- (as Chris Warren Jr.)
Nathaniel Bellamy Jr.
- Highschool Referee #1
- (as Nathaniel Bellamy)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaProducer Spike Lee believed the female lead should have believable basketball skills. Gina Prince-Bythewood said in an interview "I saw over 700 people for the part: actors, ballplayers, people who had never acted before in their life. It finally came down to Sanaa Lathan and Niesha Butler [a star player at Georgia Tech and 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year]. I put Sanaa with a basketball coach for two months and Niesha with an acting coach."
- GoofsWhen Monica is playing for Barcelona in the Euro Championship, she encounters her former college teammate (Sidra), who is playing for the opponent (Parma). One would assume that there would be a lot of game-planning and film watching prior to a big game such as this. Despite this, both are surprised to see the other in the hallway leading up to the court.
- Crazy creditsThe end of the creidts show Quincy's and Monica's daughter dunking a basketball .
Featured review
Intelligent romantic comedy with a feminist touch.
I loved that Monica was fierce about her love of basketball, had a quick temper on the court, and knew exactly what she wanted. I kept waiting for her to punch out those idiot female high school classmates of hers who kept picking on her because she was a tomboy. There was a nice contrast between Monica's independence and the traditional homemaker route that her mother took. The subplot about the troubled marriage of Quincy's parents was also well done. I have seen other basketball movies ("Above The Rim" and "He Got Game" comes to mind), but this is one of the better ones, esp. since it tells the story from the viewpoint of the female athlete, and an African-American one, at that. I wholeheartedly recommend this. It's free of the fluff that permeates other romantic dramas.
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- Apr 24, 2000
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- Release date
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- Languages
- Also known as
- Love and Basketball
- Filming locations
- Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain(Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,475,093
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,139,180
- Apr 23, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $27,743,596
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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