Love & Basketball
Love & Basketball has an unusual bracket signature: modest early, strong late. The 38% overall rate hides a film that tends to peak exactly when the competition does. Gina Prince-Bythewood's debut tells a love story through basketball rather than around it, and the result is one of the rare sports films where the romance and the game sequences carry equal weight.
Synopsis
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
39%, 25%, 80%. The middle-round drop makes Love & Basketball look inconsistent — until the finals reveal a film that performs best under the most pressure.
Above the Rim is the film Love & Basketball can't figure out — just 20% in their matchups. The 6th Man causes similar problems at 30%.
Basketball Movie Madness Part II - The Snubs typically ends in the semifinals for Love & Basketball: trails Air Bud 61–39% in round one, loses to Above the Rim (20%) in the semifinals.
Dead last in Basketball Movie Madness Part II - The Snubs.
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