Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

Top credits

Directors

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Writers

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Cast

Sanaa Lathan — Monica Wright
Omar Epps — Quincy McCall
Glenndon Chatman — Young Quincy
Jess Willard — Jamal

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Did you know

• In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sanaa Lathan said her basketball tryout was terrible because she'd never played before. "It was so embarrassing because literally I didn't know how to dribble. I didn't know how to hold the ball. But I'm proud of how it looks [in the movie]. I had no idea I would be able to do it."

• Producer Spike Lee believed the female lead should have believable basketball skills. Gina Prince-Bythewood said in an interview "I saw over 700 people for the part: actors, ballplayers, people who had never acted before in their life. It finally came down to Sanaa Lathan and Niesha Butler [a star player at Georgia Tech and 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year]. I put Sanaa with a basketball coach for two months and Niesha with an acting coach."

• The scene where the character Monica is pushed and receives a scar was added because Sanaa Lathan has the scar on her cheek in real life.