Synopsis
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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Cast
- Denzel WashingtonJake Shuttlesworth
- Ray AllenJesus Shuttlesworth
- Rosario DawsonLala Bonilla
- Milla JovovichDakota Burns
- Hill HarperColeman "Booger" Sykes
- Ned BeattyWarden Wyatt
- Jim BrownSpivey
- Joseph Lyle TaylorCrudup
- Bill NunnUncle Bubba
- Michele ShayAunt Sally
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
As is often the case with Lee, though, the film left me wishing for even more scenes of casual intimacy, still the most powerful way to carry any message. - 80
Chicago Reader
As usual, Lee tries many kinds of stylistic effects and uses wall-to-wall music (by Aaron Copland and Public Enemy); what’s different this time is how personally driven the story feels. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
He Got Game seems to cheer for integrity, honesty and hard work while playing up its own cheap thrills. - 70
Salon
Awkward and often downright silly, He Got Game is nonetheless heartfelt, a moving portrayal of a man who finds his long-lost son through faith, hope and basketball. - 70
Slate
Uneven, ludicrous, but--oh man!--fun to watch. - 70
Newsweek
Flaws and all, this may be Spike's most purely enjoyable movie, and his best looking - 67
Austin Chronicle
For all his superfan's intimacy with b-ball culture, he focuses less on the sport's fascinating mystique than on generic recapitulation of how celebrity culture seduces and devours young minority athletes. - 60
Variety
Lacking the moral indignation, outrage and militant politics that marked Lee's earlier work, this vibrantly colorful film is a tad too soft at the center, and arguably the director's most mainstream movie.
