Dreaming of Lions vs Love & Basketball
Dreaming of Lions has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.4/10 for Love & Basketball). Dreaming of Lions is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 2h 4m. Love & Basketball is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dreaming of Lions
Love & Basketball| Dreaming of Lions | Love & Basketball | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 2h 4m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Paolo Marinou-Blanco | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| Main cast | Denise Fraga, Joana Ribeiro, Toni Gomila, Roberto Bomtempo, João Nunes Monteiro | Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Harry Lennix, Alfre Woodard, Regina Hall |
Synopsis
Dreaming of Lions
Gilda is terminally ill. Her only wish is to die without pain, and as all her suicide attempts comically fail, she decides to seek professional help.
Love & Basketball
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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