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
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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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
Follows the relationship of Monica and Q from elementary school, through high school, college, and life afterwards as they grow to maturity on the court and off. Sanaa Lathan is great as Monica, the girl who wants nothing more than to be the first woman to play in the NBA yet slowly begins to realize there is something greater missing from her life. Omar Epps does his usual fine performance as Q, a boy striving to be better than his NBA star father who learns that a man doesn't necessarily have to be a star. The basketball scenes are well shot and pretty realistic in the aspect of how male and female teams are viewed by the fans. Overall a very enjoyable movie.
- chuckrules
- Apr 13, 2002
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- 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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