when did the movie love and basketball come out
April 21, 2000
title: Love & Basketball text: all-time for a basketball film and thirty-seventh all-time for a sports drama. The film grossed $27,728,118 worldwide; $268,503 (1%) was grossed outside of the United States. | 2001 | rowspan="6" | 2001 | 2000 | 2000 | 2001 | rowspan="5" | 2001 Love & Basketball Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps. The film tells the story of Quincy McCall (Epps) and Monica Wright (Lathan), two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles, California who are pursuing their basketball careers before eventually falling for each other. The film was produced by 40 Acres title: Love & Basketball text: Love & Basketball Love & Basketball is a 2000 American romantic drama film starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps. The film tells the story of Quincy McCall (Epps) and Monica Wright (Lathan), two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles, California who are pursuing their basketball careers before eventually falling for each other. The film was produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, and marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood. Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) have wanted to be professional basketball stars since they were kids. Monica wanted to play for the Los Angeles Lakers and wear title: Love & Basketball text: it, as you would any rookie underdog, but it offers nothing to cheer for." He also elaborates on the acting, stating "Omar Epps possesses a chiseled body and a blank stare [...] Lathan is only slightly better, but she's stuck in a hollow role." "Love & Basketball" was released in North America on April 21, 2000 to 1,237 theaters. It grossed $3,176,000 its first day and ending its North American weekend with $8,139,180, which was the second-highest grossing movie of the April 21–23, 2000 weekend, only behind "U-571". "Love & Basketball" grossed $27,459,615 in the United States, which is ninth title: Gina Prince-Bythewood text: in 1991. After five years working in TV as a writer on shows like "A Different World" and "South Central," Prince-Bythewood wrote her first film, 2000's "Love & Basketball." The film was developed at the Sundance Institute's directing and writing lab. The film won 12 awards overall and was nominated for three more. It won Best Film and Best Film Poster at the Black Reel Awards, and Best First Screenplay by Gina Prince-Blythewood at the Independent Spirit Awards ( Love & Basketball Wikipedia). The film also grossed about $27,728,000 worldwide, making it the ninth most popular basketball film in the title: Love & Basketball text: childhood friends who love each other almost as much as they love the game of basketball. Other highlights of the soundtrack include songs from MC Lyte, Al Green, and Rufus." "Love & Basketball" was released in the United States on April 21, 2000. "Love & Basketball" received generally favorable reviews from film critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 70, based on 28 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable". At Rotten Tomatoes, which is similar to Metacritic, the film received an aggregated score of 82%,