
Love & Basketball
- Fri, Feb 28
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 2000
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Chris Warren, Kyla Pratt, Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan
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.
“It is exhilarating and so terribly rare to see a woman choose herself, to see her recognize that she shouldn’t have to make such an impossible choice, and to see her believe that a man who is truly worthy of her would never demand such a choice of her.” ~ Roxane Gay, Criterion