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Mood:
- RoughTouchingContemplativeStylizedCaptivatingThought ProvokingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Athlete's LifeRedemptionParents and ChildrenAmbitionHopesLife is a BitchLifestyleMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaSportBlaxploitation
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- New YorkUSAUrban Ghetto
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- ClassicalHip Hop
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- Profanity
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He Got Game, 1998
English
USA
Profile of He Got Game
He Got Game can be described as touching, rough, and bittersweet. The plot revolves around the life of an athlete, redemption, and family problems. The main genres are drama and sports. In terms of style, He Got Game involves blaxpoitation. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in New York. He Got Game takes place in the 1990s. The soundtrack is classical and hip hop. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. He Got Game is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of He Got Game
Spike Lee turns his attention to the high-stakes world of basketball with this charged drama. Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) is serving 15 years for playing a role in the death of his wife. His son, Jesus (Ray Allen), is the best high school basketball player in the country. One week before Jesus must sign a letter of intent to the college of his choice, Jake is granted a temporary reprieve. The catch is that the state's governor wants the prodigy to go to his alma mater and is willing to consider commuting Jake's sentence if he can persuade Jesus to go there. When the time comes for Jesus to make a decision, both father and son are forced to confront their past and present actions--as a role reversal has taken place during Jake's time in prison that sparks a heated confrontation on the basketball court. Lee's unusual choice to use the music of Aaron Copland, an American classical composer, for the soundtrack and his concept of pairing it with the national sport of basketball is a contrast that is made even more striking by the other contributing artists, notably the insistent urban sound provided by Public Enemy.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 1 May 1998 |
| Runtime: | 136 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jake Shuttlesworth
as Jesus Shuttlesworth
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Critics Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Peter Stack
Users Reviews
- 15.August.2008
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- by: fletcher.munson
- fletcher.munson rated this movie
8/10Great
