Another great basketball movie for today is this romantic drama from 2000, which stars Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps as childhood sweethearts who go on to become a couple as young adults, while both figuring out how to pursue their respective basketball careers. One of the few sports movies ever to focus on a female athlete's quest for success, both in her professional and personal life (tellingly, it was also directed by a woman, Gina Prince-Bythewood), and the chemistry is terrific between Epps and Lathan.
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