Love and Basketball

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul alley-oop 2000's Gina Prince-Bythewood athletic romance Love And Basketball! They discover the impact this film made on WNBA players like Candace Parker, learn why Sanaa Lathan had to prove she was up for the lead role, and ask if a childhood argument foreshadows the central couple's turbulent relationship. Plus: Why did the love scene almost get cut by the MPAA? This is the sixth episode in our Couple Goals series; next week’s film is Brokeback Mountain! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 2000, 200,000.
0:04.5	In your poll, where's the P?
0:06.4	The podcast right here.
0:08.5	The movie? Love and basketball.
0:10.9	Hello everybody and welcome to unspilled.
0:33.3	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:34.4	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to watch and find the
0:39.5	best 100 films of all time.
0:42.0	We've already been through the A of I list and now we are working through our own list
0:45.6	searching and sorting through different genres to find the best films that can then be
0:52.4	sent up into space and prove to the aliens once and for all that humanity is worth saving.
1:00.0	Amy, we are on a couple goals.
1:02.7	This is the genre where we're going deep into relationship films.
1:07.4	We talked last week a lot about eternal sunshine.
1:10.9	So many people loved that movie and I feel like it was so great for us to have a conversation
1:16.8	about Charlie Kaufman and Michelle Gondry and I'm so like kind of jazzed up about this
1:25.0	podcast because I feel like I'm going deeper into films that I've already loved but I'm
1:29.3	also getting to experience different films that I hadn't really seen like today's film
1:34.2	love and basketball.
1:35.2	I did not really know that much about this film.
1:36.8	I knew it was a big film but I didn't it kind of just shot over me and I love that kind
1:43.0	of not to pat ourselves in the back but I love that kind of structure that we're forming
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