Movie
He Got Game
Overview
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-05-01
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Touchstone Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Jake Shuttlesworth
- Ray Allen as Jesus Shuttlesworth
- Rosario Dawson as Lala Bonilla
- Milla Jovovich as Dakota Burns
- Hill Harper as Coleman "Booger" Sykes
- Ned Beatty as Warden Wyatt
- Jim Brown as Spivey
- Joseph Lyle Taylor as Crudup
- Bill Nunn as Uncle Bubba
- Michele Shay as Aunt Sally
- John Turturro as Billy Sunday
- Shaquille O'Neal as Shaquille O'Neal
Crew
- Spike Lee - Director
- Spike Lee - Screenplay
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