Love & Basketball vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.4/10 for Love & Basketball). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 2h 4m. Love & Basketball is the older of the two (2000 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love & Basketball
What We Wanted to Be| Love & Basketball | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2024 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | United States of America | Argentina |
| Director | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Harry Lennix, Alfre Woodard, Regina Hall | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
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.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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