Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan in 'Love & Basketball'. New Line Cinema/Everett Collection
LOVE & BASKETBALL WAS MORE THAN A MOVIE. IT CHANGED MY WHOLE LIFE.
TIME MAGAZINE
“When Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball was released 20 years ago, it was celebrated as a mainstream romantic film featuring Black characters, but I treasured it for so much more.
I was living in Cambridge, Mass., nearing the end of my first year at Harvard Law School, but I had no desire to be a lawyer. I’d gone to law school because my father was a lawyer and expected me to become one, too. But the gray gloominess that hung over New England was becoming hard to distinguish from the gloom I felt in myself. I was lost in it—trapped inside an impossible cloud of other people’s opinions and expectations…..”