Love and Basketball

Pros: Good drama, acting
Cons: Left wanting to know more about Quincy

The movie "Love And Basketball" certainly lives up to its title. It's a family drama about the Wrights and McCalls, who become neighbors in 1981 Los Angeles. Both families have children who are the same age, and, by coincidence, like to play...

Pros: Excellent performances from both leads and entire supporting cast / Convincing and touching story and script
Cons: At just over 2 hours, it runs a little long / Fairly predictable / Ending could definitely be better

According to writer / director Gina Prince, love and basketball do not go hand in hand because each element is too time consuming on its own. On the other hand, her film, Love and Basketball, works beautifully, combining convincing and endearing...

Pros: Great 80's rap soundtrack, plus the Clipper references.
Cons: Far too little basketball.

I knew this movie was going to be kind of cheeseball from the trailers. I mean...strip 21...I don't think so. Nevertheless, I rented it because my roommate stng wanted to check it out. Plus, even though it was going to be bad, it had ballin' in...

Pros: If you dig them hoops, if you dig Sanaa Lathan, if you dig love stories...
Cons: Although very good here, I don't quite buy Omar Epps as a baller...

I am a sick, sick fan of hoops, and I cannot get over how much I like LOVE & BASKETBALL. Yet, here's the thing. My appreciation of this film doesn't largely hinge on its basketball aspects (although they play a part). LOVE & BASKETBALL, as the title ...

Pros: great casting, great story line
Cons: none

I have been wanting to write an opinion on this movie for quite some time but the words I come up with never quite do the movie justice. This was one of the most entertaining movies I have rented this year. I'm not big on any sport except NASCAR and if I...

Pros: the wonderful Sanna Lathan
Cons: Omar Epps doesn't hold up to Lathan in terms of one's emotional investment in their characters

Love and Basketball is the most unexpectedly pleasurable film I’ve seen in a long while. Fittingly told in four quarters, it is the story of man and woman who have shared a love for the game of basketball ever since they met as 11-year-olds, and...

Pros: An O.K. Chick Flick
Cons: Dragged Out Forever, But my wife loved it.

This was not a movie, that me and my friends just decided to go see. We got caught up into it like many of you probably do. Well we wanted to go see Frequency, but our wives wanted to see Love And Basketball saying 'Oh you guys will like it.'...

Pros: It is a great movie to see
Cons: It's very lovey dovey so it is best to see with a boyfriend or girlfriend

Directed by Gina-Prince Brythewood, "Love and Basketball" is a movie about growing up into life's dreams. Debbie Morgan plays the role of Monique Wright who's goal in life is to be the first woman in the NBA. Omar Epps plays Quincy McCall....

Pros: a wonderful and sweet love story
Cons: slow moving at times

I just saw Love and Basketball last night. We saw the movie because we had seen the previews and it looked like a love story with some basketball. My husband is into the sports and I am into the love, so it was a perfect match.

The movie opens...

Pros: Epps and Lathan are engaging; Bythewood's nuanced, character-based direction.
Cons: A fourth quarter that wears out its welcome.

Love & Basketball is a rather plain title for this simple love story. But given how the two are often intertwined into the lives of so many people in our current culture, you could basically call the film Life and it would be as...

Pros: Good acting.
Cons: A waste

Of all of the projects for Spike Lee to attach his name onto, Love and Basketball may go down as one of the most idiotic. Lee produced this Hoop Dreams meets Romeo and Juliet love story and his largest mistake by far was to hand the position of...

Pros: 4 stars
Cons: 4stars

When the opening credits came to view and the music filled the air I could do nothing but swing back and forth in my seat as Al Green's song "Love and Happiness" began what is the best Athletic Drama Combination of the 21st century.

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Pros: Smart writing, chemistry between Epps and Lathan
Cons: Length

Passion is one of the strongest emotions in existence. It can drive people through their lives, hold lovers together, and tear lives apart. Rarely in film is the intensity, and its effects captured on screen, because it is an emotion that sometimes...

Pros: Excellent performances...
Cons: ...which save predictable material

Steady as she goes, Captain. These might just have been the words of Spike Lee, the producer of LOVE AND BASKETBALL, to his first-time-out director, Gina Prince-Bythewood. Lee's growing cadre of young, passionate African-American directors he is guiding...

Pros: Good Acting, Sweet Story
Cons: Kind Of Long

On a girls night out, my friends persuaded me into seeing this movie called Love and Basketball. I really didn't want to go. I thought it was just about basketball (a sport I don't particularly enjoy), and I completely ignored the "love"...