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This unassuming hoopster melodrama is a pleasant surprise. I mean, it won't end world hunger or usher in the Age of Aquarius, but then neither will anything else you'll find in a movie theater unless the Dalai Lama's been sneaking out to scope Julia Roberts' new foundation. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood, it follows Monica (Sanaa Lathan, The Best Man) and Quincy (Omar Epps) from their childhood as neighbors in a comfortable L.A. suburb into college and beyond. He's a smooth, popular point guard (although relatively short, but Calvin Murphy and Muggsy Bogues made it, so why not...) with all the benefits of being a jock in a big high school, she's a tomboy wallflower joquette with little life outside the frustratingly slow-to-mature world of women's sports. They finally get over the whole familiarity/contempt thing and fall in love on the way toward b-ball scholarships at Southern Cal, but life's usual speed bumps keep getting in the way.
Produced by Spike Lee, this is another one of those things like Love Jones or The Wood that sneaks in under the radar while junk like Next Friday and 3 Strikes gives African-American filmmaking a bad name. B-
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