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Is love and basketball based on a true story...
They meet at age 11, when she moves into the neighbourhood and he -- mistaking her, at first, for a boy -- lets her join a pickup basketball game. When she shakes out her hair and proceeds to kick his ass on the court, Quincy (played as a young man by Glenndon Chapman and as an adult by Omar Epps) knocks Monica (Kyla Pratt young, Sanaa Lathan as an adult) on her ass in frustration.
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She carries a scar on her jaw from the fight for the rest of the film. So it goes with love and basketball.
Two of the best sports movies of all time came out within a couple of years of each other at the turn of the millennium; both were directed by women, and both were about young women of colour trying to negotiate entry into a pastime (and in both cases, a passion) traditionally dominated by men.
One was Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham, and the other was Gina Prince-Blythewood's superb Love & Basketball, which joined the Criterion Collection last week at spine #1097.
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