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Love & Basketball
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1098
- IMDb #1825
- Rotten Tomatoes #482
- Metacritic #1810
- Letterboxd #1665
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1464
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #83
- Metacritic Critics #1200
- Metacritic Audience #3109
- Kinopoisk #1119
- AlloCiné #1064
- Trakt #1418
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic users on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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
- Director
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Writer
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Released
- 21 April 2000
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $27.7M
- Awards
- 11 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 17 →1 major award won · 11 wins from 17 nominations across 17 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Category 2000 | — | Love & Basketball | Winner |
| Best Actor 2001 | — | Omar Epps | Nominee |
| Best Actress 2001 | — | Sanaa Lathan | Winner |
| Best Director 2001 | — | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Winner |
| Best Drama Poster 2001 | — | D Stevens | Winner |
| Best Film 2001 | — | Love & Basketball | Winner |
| Best Film Poster 2001 | — | Love & Basketball | Winner |
| Best Song 2001 | — | "Fool of Me" ( Meshell Ndegeocello ) | Winner |
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