I-A: my top sport movies. See all related lists ». Share this page:. Clear your history. Jake Shuttlesworth. Jesus Shuttlesworth. Dakota Burns. Lala Bonilla. Coleman 'Booger' Sykes. Mary Shuttlesworth. Warden Wyatt. Big Time Willie. Coach Billy Sunday. Martha Shuttlesworth. Coach Cincotta.
Chick Deagan. Dom Pagnotti. D'Andre Mackey. Prison Guard Books. Prison Guard Burwell. Jesus Shuttleshworth Age 12 as Jade Yorker. Booger Age Mary Shuttlesworth Age 6. John Thompson. Roy Williams. Nolan Richardson.
Clem Haskins. Rick Pitino as Richard Pitino. Bobby Cremins as Robert 'Bobby' Cremins. Shaquille O'Neal. Reggie Miller. Charles Barkley. I also felt it depicted some very frank images of the cultural aspects of athletics, the sex, the money and the little freebies.
While the film didn't need the story between Denzel Washington and Milla Jovovich, it was strong in most aspects. It was a bit of a change of pace for Spike Lee, considering the graininess of the film stock and the rather mundane colors.
Also, Ray Allen had one of the best pro athletes-turned-actor performances in a long time. Agent10 May 20, FAQ 2. What high school are the basketball scenes shot in? Where is the Abraham Lincoln High School located? Details Edit. Release date May 1, United States. United States. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit.
Runtime 2 hours 16 minutes. Related news. Jan 4 The Wrap. Allen would go on to wear the name "J. Shuttlesworth" on the back of his Miami Heat jersey for a few games in the season. It also showcased the new at the time Jordan 13s, but all these things don't beat the most memorable moment of the film…. The final one-on-one basketball game between Denzel Washington's character and Ray Allen's character.
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Found the story interesting? Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. I'm already a fan, don't show this again. Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? The movie plays out like a chaotic basketball game with lots of action and memorable action, but in the end you do not want either team to win. Washington and Allen's relationship takes up some airtime, but so do others that leave almost as fast as they appear. The corruption in collegiate athletics and within sports agencies is also given an interesting glimpse, but alas those topics are not explored completely.
Washington is impressive and handles the material as well as he can. Allen is a complete revelation. Anfernee Hardaway had stolen the show from Nick Nolte in "Blue Chips" and Allen pretty much does the same thing in this one. Ray Allen seems to have unlimited potential in front of the camera and his gift could be developed more fully after his playing career ends.
I have said for years that Ray Allen should be the best player in the NBA, but he has ultimately disappointed me throughout his professional career. Allen is not the problem here though. Lee's sporadic direction and a meandering script end up sending "He Got Game" to the locker room way too soon.
Numberis6 16 January He got game is a Spike Lee Joint. Spike Lee made and makes a lot of good joints. Many directors have a lot of dud movies and then disappear. Spike Lee tho is consistent whether or not you like him or not just respect his work. Spike has done hood movies, race bait movies to black love movies.
The list can go on. He Got Game was one of his best works. Ray has to go to school and take care of his sister on his own. Ray in the whole movie has a lot of resentment. Not a great actor but Ray did his best and his performance was legendary. Its more of a drama, parental movie than a basketball movie. He Got Game is a lovely, passionate film.
Me explaining it does not do the movie any justice. Verdict: 4th quarter Legend. Released for a week from prison in a shady deal in which he has to convince his son to sign with a particular university, the father of a basketball prodigy struggles to reconnect with his teenage children in this Spike Lee drama. While basketball is a prominent theme and the film opens with majestic shots of various kids poetically playing the game, this is less a sports movie and more a study of estranged relationships with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen having close to equal screen time as father and son respectfully.
Allen is nowhere near as polished an actor as Washington, but he has a nicely complex character, torn between offers from various universities, the wishes of his girlfriend, a desire to take responsibility for his sister and lots of resentment towards his father. Lee also admirably avoids spelling out Washington's criminal conviction until partway in, which gives us a chance to gradually warm to his character before discovering his heinous past actions. The film runs a little long with a subplot involving a hooker next door that could have been omitted completely; the ending is also a tad too maudlin for its own good.
The vast majority of the film tugs on the right emotional strings though and together with some awesome music and excellent camera-work as per Lee par, this is a compelling watch regardless of one's interest in the sport of basketball. This film shows the real crossroads where the Blacks are in America, and I say the Blacks because they call themselves Blacks and not Afro-Americans or African Americans.
The mother is dead, killed accidentally in a temper but the father. The father is in prison for a very long time. The son hates his father and has to learn how to get over his hatred. The daughter is missing her father but her brother is isolating her. The uncle and aunt only see the money the son represents. He is a high school star in basketball and he can get directly into making a lot of money if he joins the NBA or he can go to some university and have a scholarship. One more tricky element: the governor wants the kid for the team of his university, the one he sponsors and likes.
So why not use the father, give him a week of semi freedom and force him thus to negotiate his son's signing the right papers. What's more the basketball star is invited by some schools to come and visit and there he is provided with everything he may desire, including the girls and the useless other entertainments.
The NBA is offering a car to the uncle, though in fact it is for the son to run it. And the high school coach is able to put ten thousand dollars on the table for him to join, guess what, the NBA of course.
The film is saved from this muddy marshlandish country by the son choosing the only moral solution, the one that will help his father to get out faster, the one that is going to cure him from his hatred, even if that is slightly idealistic, frankly Utopian.
The storyline involves a young man raising his little sister and whose mother died and his father is in prison. He is in his senior year in high school and among the most recruited basketball players in the nation for college. He will need to manage how the moving pieces of schools begging him to attend and his coach, girlfriend, father, friends and family try to influence his decision. Nascarella The Sopranos. The storyline for this is very well told in a detailed and thorough depiction compared to previous films on this topic think Blue Chips.
The setting of Coney Island is also well depicted as well as the recruiting methods of both schools and agents and how the people around the recruit can be as easily manipulated as the prospect themself.
The acting in this is out of this world, even by Ray Allen. This is a movie that is fun to watch unfold both from the characters and their backstories as well as the primary premise.
Overall this isn't Lee's best movie but is still a very thorough, well done picture on this topic. Ardent basketball fan Spike Lee wrote and directed this absorbing drama that explores the many challenges faced by talented young athletes, but more importantly the relationship between fathers and sons.
Jake Shuttlesworth is an imprisoned convict in upstate New York who makes a deal with the governor: one week of freedom to persuade his son Jesus-the nation's top basketball prospect-to attend the governor's alma mater in exchange for a reduced sentence, but Jake's relationship with his son is strained to say the least. The storyline is a bit of a stretch, but made worthwhile by strong acting from Washington, compelling as usual, and NBA star Allen, surprisingly credible in his screen debut, but there are some issues: film goes on too long by including unnecessary subplots that detract from the central story, and some genuinely poignant moments are undermined by a booming score that tends to overshadow the performances.
A good film that's a bit overdone, featuring plenty of recognizable cameos for those who are a fan of the sport. The Spike Lee joint "He Got Game" is one of the director's most passionate films because it's about his own personal passion for the love of basketball, one of the richest and most mythic of sports.
But to Lee, it's also the most holy and with that said, "He Got Game" has no shortage of religious undertones, symbolism, and imagery. Now, as a sometime fan of the game and occasional player of the game though I was never really any good, and former Chicago Bulls player Michael Jordan ranks as my greatest athlete , I can see why Lee feels the way he does about the game and his film. But "He Got Game" is mostly about the relationship between the father and the son.
Denzel Washington in one of his best performances, and the third time he has worked with Lee is Jake Shuttlesworth, a convict doing time for the manslaughter of his wife. Looking for a chance at redemption, he gets it when the governor, an adamant basketball fan, hears that Jake's son is the number-one basketball prospect in the country.
In a once-in-a-lifetime chance, the governor, using the warden Ned Beatty as his go-to guy, agrees to reduce Jake's sentence if he can get his son to attend the governor's alma mater, Big State University. In order to do this, Jake is given a one-week temporary release from prison, with two parole officers Jim Brown and Joseph Lyle Taylor watching his every move.
The deal is easier said done. Jake's son, Jesus Ray Allen, of the Milwaukee Bucks , has nothing but contempt for him and while his younger sister Mary Zelda Harris and cousin Booger Hill Harper have forgiven him for his sins, Jesus's heart is still filled with hatred and resentment for his father. It just becomes a question of whether or not the son will forgive the sins of the father, and whether or not the father and the son can come together as one.
Every film he makes is a new experience and will always keep you watching. While suffering from an overly long running time, a few under-developed characters like Milla Jovovich's Dakota and occasionally uneven storytelling, "He Got Game," like all of Lee's work, keeps you watching.
Washington is one of the strongest actors working in the industry today some of his best moments are flashbacks to Jesus's childhood and why Jake pushed him so hard to be the best ballplayer that he could be, and the reasons behind Jake's incarceration, which are revealed to be far more complicated than first thought ; while it is true that Allen is no great actor he is an athlete, after all , he is at his best during his scenes with Washington.
On his own, it's a bit of mixed effort. Lee's composer has frequently been Terence Blanchard, but replacing him this time is the emotive, driving score by Aaron Copland, blaring up during many of the film's strongest moments.
Rap group Public Enemy also composed many of the songs appearing on the soundtrack; it marked their triumphant return to the rap game after a few disappointing albums. While I don't consider myself much of a religious person despite a Baptist Christian upbringing , there is a lot of religious allegory in "He Got Game. The only person capable of steering the son clear of these dangers is the guidance of the father, who's seeking his own redemption as well as the forgiveness and love of the son.
The ending is a great step from the usual "reality" of most traditional Hollywood endings, yet a further sign that Lee is maturing as a filmmaker.
It's powerful, it's moving, and it has game. Flash Review Would you lend a hand to your father after he has been imprisoned for doing something terrible to your mother?
What would it take to forgive him? These are some of the questions raised in this film. The father's objective is made clear from the start as his son, a high school basketball phenom is being recruited by various colleges to commit to their school and he hasn't spoken to his father since he was a kid.
The father must persuade him to play for a specific school to help reduce his prison sentence. The film is very well acted with a wide range of emotions displayed. Even by Ray Allen who is known more for draining buckets vs his acting prowess. There are some very smart edits, transitions and the music used is very original for an urban-centered film; it was scored by Aaron Copland! This may well be a good movie but holy cow does this feel like a try hard drama looking for adulation over actual substance.
I'm not impressed by any of the performances here, least of all by Ray Allen as "Jesus" and his stiff, wooden acting. Everything felt so formulaic and predictable from beginning to end, I was never surprised by anything and never particularly invested purely because I knew what was coming at every turn. It's just another sports drama about one person being really good and the people around him trying to influence him for better or worse. Yeah, this one has Denzel but Mr. Washington can't save this one from mediocrity.
Background movie. Pure and simple. It's not really worth your time and definitely not worth your full attention. Needless to say, don't pay for this. If you must see it, stream it somehow, find it free somewhere but under no circumstances is this a buy. Agent10 20 May It finally happened, and the movie we all thought Spike Lee would make became reality.
With Lee's own little foray into the basketball world, I always wondered when he would create a story which reflected his unique views of the game. While sometimes over sensationalized, he depicted a seedy world comprised of two-faced individuals all the way down to the seedy high school coach to the professional agent. I also felt it depicted some very frank images of the cultural aspects of athletics, the sex, the money and the little freebies.
While the film didn't need the story between Denzel Washington and Milla Jovovich, it was strong in most aspects.
It was a bit of a change of pace for Spike Lee, considering the graininess of the film stock and the rather mundane colors.
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