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Love and Basketball Release Date-April 21, 2000 Studio- 40 Acres and a Mule Director- Gina Prince Writer- Gina Prince Producer- Spike Lee CAST- Sanaa Lathan- Monica Wright Omar Epps- Quincy McCall Dennis Haysbert- Zeke McCall Alfre Woodward- Camille Wright The film is both a story of two aspiring athletes trying to negotiate passion for sport with other necessary pieces of real life and a critique of contemporary men’s and women’s sports at various levels. Emphasizing the inseparability of the basketball element from the love story, the film is divided into quarters. The first quarter opens when nine-year-old Monica Wright and her family move in next door to former Los Angeles Laker Zeke McCall and his family. Tomboy and basketball fanatic Monica marches confidently over to her new neighbor’s yard, where the two McCall boys are shooting hoops, and demands that they let her join. An instant attraction/rivalry ensues between Monica and one of the brothers, Quincy, as they discover that they both want to play in the NBA. Quincy’s attempt to harness the tension by asking Monica to be his girlfriend fails as Quincy’s macho assertiveness clashes with Monica’s feisty determination. By the time the second