Film

Love & Basketball

2000 · 2h 5m · Comedy · Drama · Romance

All's fair in love and basketball.

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

Metacritic

73

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.

Sanaa Lathan

Monica Wright

Omar Epps

Quincy McCall

Chris Warren

Kelvin

Kyla Pratt

Young Monica

Alfre Woodard

Camille Wright

Regina Hall

Lena Wright

Glenndon Chatman

Young Quincy

Jess Willard

Jamal

Naykia Harris

Young Lena

Harry Lennix

Nathan Wright

Debbi Morgan

Nona McCall

Dennis Haysbert

Zeke McCall

Al Foster

Coach Hiserman

Colleen Matsuhara

UCLA Coach

Gabrielle Union

Shawnee

Tyra Banks

Kyra Kessler

• Gina Prince-BythewoodWriter · Director
• Spike LeeProducer
• Sam KittProducer
• Andrew Z. DavisExecutive Producer
• Jay SternExecutive Producer
• Cynthia GuidryExecutive Producer
• Reynaldo VillalobosDirector of Photography
• Terence BlanchardOriginal Music Composer
• Terilyn A. ShropshireEditor
• Aisha ColeyCasting

Original Theatrical Trailer

Release date

April 21, 2000

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 5m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$27,728,118

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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