![]() I dig how thorough Gina was in her writing, right down to finding a "role" for Sanaa's real-life face scar. If that doesn't make you sit and think about how fast time flies by, I don't know what will.Ģ. How cute were Kyla Pratt and Glenndon Chatman as Little Monica Wright and Little Quincy McCall, y'all? To put time into perspective, Kyla and Glenndon are both now 33. But in honor of a movie that continues to make an impact, for so many reasons and on so many levels, even now, let's review 20 things about why this movie is always going to be worth checking out…a few more times (and then a few times after that).ġ. Personally, I don't think I know one Black person who hasn't seen Love & Basketball at least 10 times at this point. To this day, it continues to prove that there is a real market for Black filmmakers who tell everyday Black stories that are relevant and oh so very necessary to- everyone. With a $15 million budget, Love & Basketball went on to make $27 million at the box office. In it, Gina talks about how Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Films produced the movie, how it was Sanaa Lathan's first leading role (I also think it's cool that Regina Hall played the big sister Lena, and she and Sanaa ended up acting together later in The Best Man). The nostalgia of the film alone served as my motivation to want to pen this, but what really made me want to get it out even more was due to the article, " Black Women's Stories Are the Hardest to Get Made: The Gina Prince-Bythewood Interview". ![]() Still, the movie continues to be "sentimentally significant" enough that the xoTeam still wanted to make sure that it got some love from us before the month ends. The actual release date crept up on me (it was April 16). While I knew in the back of my mind that the classic-not just "Black classic" either-movie Love & Basketball was celebrating its (can you believe it?!) 20th anniversary this year, I do want to extend a personal apology to the film's writer and director, the totally bomb creator Gina Prince-Bythewood. ![]()
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