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He Got Game
1998
· Movie
· 136 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2103
- IMDb #2479
- Rotten Tomatoes #1377
- Metacritic #2014
- Letterboxd #1666
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1877
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1349
- Metacritic Critics #2082
- Metacritic Audience #2037
- Criticker #1494
- Kinopoisk #1967
- AlloCiné #2692
- Trakt #2506
Every rating
52–83
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 83.
See the most agreed on films →A convict is given a one-week parole by the governor. His task is to convince his son, the nation's top high school basketball prospect, to play for the governor's alma mater. The father must try to reconnect with his estranged son and overcome years of resentment while the deadline for the decision looms.
Details
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Writer
- Spike Lee
- Released
- 1 May 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $21.6M
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Awards
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