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Released
2000 · FILM

Love & Basketball

Two basketball prodigies who grew up next door must chase professional stardom while navigating a passionate romance that threatens to derail both their careers.

“All's fair in love and basketball.”

Directed by
Gina Prince Bythewood
Written by
Gina Prince Bythewood
Runtime
125 min
DramaRomanceSport

Synopsis

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall were childhood neighbors who have known each other since they were young. As they enter adulthood, they develop feelings for one another while also pursuing a shared passion for basketball. As their relationship faces challenges, they each pursue separate careers in high school and college basketball, with the goal of eventually reaching professional stardom.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Terilyn A ShropshireShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by Terence BlanchardDesigned by Jeffrey Howard

Box Office

2000 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$27.7M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$27.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.5M — 99% of worldwide · International: $269K (1%)

Opening weekend: $8.1M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.3M — 38% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,237 theaters

Also known as

  • Love and Basketballde
  • Love and Basketballfr

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