Love & basketball

DVD 2021

"Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard), which elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Omar Epps (Higher Learning) make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door nei...

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Basketball stories

Man-woman relationships United States Fiction

Women basketball players United States Fiction

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Feature films Fiction Romance films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1097 Criterion collection ; 1097 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681438702

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (124 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not Rated
MPAA rating: PG-13

Other Title:

Love and basketball

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2000
Special features: Audio commentary from 2000 featuring Prince-Bythewood and Sanaa Lathan; Playing for your heart, a new making-of documentary; editing "Love & basketball"; new conversation on the film's impact; audition tapes exerpts and six deleted scenes; two short films: Stitches (1991) and Progress (1997); essay by Roxane Gay
Title from container
Director of photography, Reynaldo Villalobos; editor, Terilyn A. Shropshire; music, Terence Blanchard
Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Harry Lennix, Dennis Haysbert, Regina Hall
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Audio tracks in English, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. Love & basketball (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

3091078

UPC:

715515263412

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Epps, Omar, actor
Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks, production company
Lathan, Sanaa, actor
Lee, Spike, film producer
Lennix, Harry J., actor
New Line Cinema Corporation, presenter
Prince-Bythewood, Gina, screenwriter, film director
Woodard, Alfre, 1953- actor

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