Movie
Love & Basketball
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-04-21
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, New Line Cinema
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sanaa Lathan as Monica Wright
- Omar Epps as Quincy McCall
- Chris Warren as Kelvin
- Kyla Pratt as Young Monica
- Alfre Woodard as Camille Wright
- Regina Hall as Lena Wright
- Glenndon Chatman as Young Quincy
- Jess Willard as Jamal
- Naykia Harris as Young Lena
- Harry Lennix as Nathan Wright
- Debbi Morgan as Nona McCall
- Dennis Haysbert as Zeke McCall
Crew
- Gina Prince-Bythewood - Director
- Gina Prince-Bythewood - Writer
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