Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Omar Epps (The Mod Squad) is Quincy, an NBA player's son who has pro dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they start as rivals (she flabbergasts the boy by outplaying him in a game of driveway pickup) and age into best friends and lovers. The romantic complications follow a familiar game plan, but the film throws a fascinating spotlight onto the contrast between men's and women's basketball. While Quincy plays college ball on huge courts to cheering, sold-out crowds, we see Monica's sweat, tears, and sheer physical dedication... Learn More
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The Rocky formula nearly wears out its welcome in Against the Ropes, a highly fictionalized feel-good drama based on the life of pioneering female boxing promoter Jackie Kallen. In an egregious effort to distill the essence of Kallen's achievement, director Charles S. Dutton (who fared better with HBO's The Corner) has strictly played it safe, delivering a foregone conclusion almost from the very first scene. Burdened with a by-the-numbers screenplay by Cheryl Edwards (Save the Last Dance), the film gets a much-needed boost from Meg Ryan, playing Kallen as a brassy, smoky-voiced dynamo, rising to the challenge when a rival promoter (played with fierce bravado by Tony Shalhoub) dares her to play hardball in a male-dominated sport. Jackie's trump cards are Luther... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Charles Dutton - Meg Ryan - Omar Epps Director(s): Charles Dutton DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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"Against the Ropes" is not merely the title of Meg Ryan's latest movie; that phrase must also describe how she feels these days, as she tries in vain to persuade her fanbase that she's more than just a cuddly blonde romantic comedy lead. Although she bared her body and her soul in director Jane Campion's seamy "In the Cut," audiences weren't interested, and it doesn't look likely that "Ropes" -- opening nearly a full year after it was scheduled to premiere -- will give anyone much to cheer about.
A heavy-duty fictionalization of the life story of Jackie Kallen, a former sportswriter and public relations specialist who hit it big as a boxing promoter, "Ropes" squanders rich source material, opting for cliches and stock situations instead. Worse still, screenwriter Cheryl Edwards has... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Charles Dutton - Meg Ryan - Omar Epps Director(s): Charles Dutton DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This ambitious 1995 film by John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) doesn't quite succeed at painting the illuminating, collective portrait of college life in the '90s that the director seeks. But Singleton does do a fine job of defining some conflicting impulses for young people on the cusp of adulthood, particularly the desire to broaden horizons on the one hand and circle the wagons with like-minded allies on the other. Students in the film's Columbus University divide themselves along lines of race, sexual preferences, ideology, and, most dangerously, levels of paranoia. Among the fine cast is Michael Rapaport, who portrays a loner drawn to a local community of neo-Nazis. His resultant problems with the school's African-Americans takes over the story at the expense of other, parallel... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Omar Epps - Kristy Swanson - Michael Rapaport Director(s): John Singleton DVD Release Date: Released the 03 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Julie Barnes (Claire Danes), Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), and Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps) have one thing in common: They're young adults on the wrong side of the law, arrested for crimes of robbery, grievous bodily harm, and arson. Taken in by mentor and father figure Captain Adam Greer (Dennis Farina), they are assigned to a special task force working undercover for the police--the logic being that these kids can get into the hip young establishments that the older, more cynical officers can no longer infiltrate. Ill-suited to each other and chastised by their peers, this rogue squad is forced to come together when they uncover a seedy world of police corruption. Not knowing who to turn to, the kids are left with their wits and street cunning (they're not allowed to carry guns) to... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Claire Danes - Giovanni Ribisi - Omar Epps Director(s): Scott Silver DVD Release Date: Released the 01 May 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Spike Lee's longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson's eye, Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better version of the heavily clichéd crime movies that have artificially dominated perceptions of black cinema in the U.S. in the '90s. Rap fans might enjoy seeing some familiar stars on board, including Queen Latifah and Tupac Shakur. --Tom KeoghMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Omar Epps - Tupac Shakur - Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins Director(s): Ernest R. Dickerson DVD Release Date: Released the 16 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Omar Epps (The Mod Squad) is Quincy, an NBA player's son who has pro dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they start as rivals (she flabbergasts the boy by outplaying him in a game of driveway pickup) and age into best friends and lovers. The romantic complications follow a familiar game plan, but the film throws a fascinating spotlight onto the contrast between men's and women's basketball. While Quincy plays college ball on huge courts to cheering, sold-out crowds, we see Monica's sweat, tears, and sheer physical dedication... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Omar Epps - Sanaa Lathan DVD Release Date: Released the 10 October 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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