As one can infer from the title, the movie Love & Basketball is about love and basketball. The New Line Company released this movie in the year 2000. Love & Basketball received many good reviews from movie reviewers. Unlike the many reviews that commended the script of Love & Basketball from beginning to end, Mark Caro's review and James Berardinelli's review not only commend the movie but also point out a few aspects of the movie that could have been better. There are two areas of the movie that Caro's and Berardinelli's review compare and an area both reviews contrast. Both say that the story shifts slightly towards the female perspective more than the male. Both also commend the writer/director of the movie (Gina Prince-Bythewood) for the technique she uses. They write that the technique helped balance out the time periods of the characters' life, making the movie more interesting and comprehensible. However, they disagree on the characters. Mark said all the characters especially the leading characters were well chosen, while James felt one of the leading characters is not. After all, the reviewers gave Love & Basketball three out of four stars.
             This movie entitled Love & Basketball is a touching story about two affluent black kids-one male and one female-who grow up loving each other and the game of basketball. The movie starts off with little Monica Wright, (Kyla Pratt) a tomboy whose parents and older sister despair of getting her to act like a girl. She'd rather shoot baskets. When Monica was about twelve years old, her family moves into a new house in Baldwin Hills, Los Angelos. There, she introduces herself to her basketball-playing neighbor, Quincy McCall, (Glenndon Chatman). Quincy is a gorgeous person who dreams of becoming an NBA (National Basketball Association) star-like is the father. The first time Monica and Quincy met, they play a pickup game but when little Monica tries to go for a score, little Quincy pushes ...