Love & Basketball vs The Postman
The Postman has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.4/10 for Love & Basketball). The Postman is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 4m. The Postman is the older of the two (1994 against 2000). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love & Basketball
The Postman| Love & Basketball | The Postman | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.9/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 1994 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 1h 49m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Michael Radford |
| Main cast | Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Harry Lennix, Alfre Woodard, Regina Hall | Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa, Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Linda Moretti |
Synopsis
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.
The Postman
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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