Love & Basketball

Love and Basketball is an absolutely great movie. It's a Sports drama mixed with a romance all in one. You get the excitement and relation to sport rolled up with romance and love. The actors play the characters perfectly and make it feel real throughout. The story is actually well written and makes sense throughout. Just a really good movie that never gets old. IMDb needs to stop making me write such long reviews and wasting my time when I can spend it better watching other good movies and reviewing them. Blah blah blah. IMDb is so annoying blah blah blah. Bahahahaia. Hahajakalmwnw d.hajajwjwjwjwjjahahahanwnnwnwjwjwjwjwhjwhwjwhwhwhwjwjjwhwwbwhwhwhwhwhhwhwhw.

A very different story about love and career choices and the obstacles women face in male dominated professions. What was most refreshing was that although the film will be lumped into the "black" film genre, it is by no means the stereotypical violent fare that Hollywood loves to dish out. Lathan and Epps are real actors cast in a movie that takes place in an upper middle class black neighborhood. Lathan a Yale graduate, is an exceptional actress that portrays the character Monica almost flawlessly. Lathan is a believable star athlete, who together with Epps creates a story that is inspirational and heart warming.

Like most, I have seen plenty of so-called love stories where girl very conveniently meets boy and they very conveniently fall "in love." Rarely have seen a film that actually reveals to me the REASON they fell in love. This love was about more than looks, it was about more than proximity, this love was about an unspoken connection that could not be denied. Every step of it was a leap of faith. And that's truly romantic.

This movie, Love and Basketball, is by-far the best movie I have seen!!!!! I love everything about this movie from the sports down to the romance and tear shedding. The thing I love the most is that this movie reminds me of me and my love. We grew up as arch rivals, but deep down inside knew we were feeling each other so we decided to keep it in. Pretty soon true feelings began to show and a relationship brewed... I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!! I just got finished watching it but I'm about to watch it again!!!! All is fair between Love and Basketball!!!

How does one define a great movie? Every now and then there are those rare movies that take us to places that are warm and comfortable to our souls, that touch where we live and make us remember the truly special moments in our lives. For blacks, maybe once or twice in a decade does a movie show us...us. Love and Basketball may not be the most technically sound movie ever produced and its story development may not be among the best, but for some of us it is a much needed respite from the profusion of overly crass and vile images that movies, records and tv will have you believe is the black experience. I applaud the makers of this movie for having the courage to go beyond the caricatures and stereotypes of what we are supposed to be to present a fuller picture of people who experience sweetness and goodness, sorrow and pain, and love and happiness.