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- With a groundbreaking soundtrack by the legendary Public Enemy -- plus great cameos from John Turturro and basketball personalities Dick Vitale, John Thompson, Dean Smith, and more, HE GOT GAME is a critically acclaimed hit you don't want to miss!
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He Got Game is a 1998 American sports drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen. The film revolves around Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington), father of the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen).
May 31, 2023 · He Got Game: A Work of Fiction. No, ‘He Got Game’ is not based on a true story. The movie is written and directed by Spike Lee and focuses on the tragic struggle between a father and his kin.
He Got Game: Directed by Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson. A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
- (52K)
- Drama, Sport
- Spike Lee
- 1998-05-01
May 2, 2018 · You can feel that tension in He Got Game, too, and in the severity with which the movie undercuts Jesus’s dreams of an uncomplicated, well-off future. Always, there’ll be a price to pay.
- K. Austin Collins
May 1, 1998 · May 1, 1998. 4 min read. Spike Lee brings the spirit of a poet to his films about everyday reality. “He Got Game,” the story of the pressures on the nation’s best high school basketball player, could have been a gritty docudrama, but it’s really more of a heartbreaker, about a father and his son.
May 1, 2023 · Released in 1998, the movie centers around Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) who’s in prison for killing his wife. The general consensus is that the killing was accidental, which may factor into why he was granted parole for a week, but there’s a catch.
QUICK TAKE: Drama: A prisoner convicted of killing his wife has seven days to convince his estranged son, the number one high school basketball player in the country, to attend the Governor's favorite college that in turn might just earn him an early parole. PLOT: Jesus Shuttlesworth (RAY ALLEN) is the number one basketball player in the country.
