'Love and Basketball' is a well done, important film about the growing role of women in sports, from the specific viewpoint of a young woman who has loved basketball all her life. Not only does the film give insights into the life of a modern day woman athlete, but it also takes a close look at how sport affects the relationships in her life. Although Monica Wright's relationship with Quincy McCall is the main focus, we also get to see aspects of relationships between mother and daughter, father and son, and between athlete and coach. The basketball sequences are convincing, as is Sanaa Lathan as Monica Wright. There is light humor throughout, always appropriate and never silly. Although the performances and dialogue could have been a little more convincing, this is an important film; not only giving us a look at the life of women athletes, but also in showing that a woman's commitment to sport is just as valid and can be just as strong as that of a man's.
Review of Love & Basketball
