He Got Game
The father, the son and the holy game.
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Release Date
5/1/1998Runtime
136 minsGenres
Overview
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$25,000,000Revenue
$21,567,853Homepage
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A father and son navigate fractured love and unresolved pain through the language of basketball, oscillating between moments of tenderness and deep conflict. The film treats its central relationship with unflinching intensity, asking what redemption and forgiveness actually cost.
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Denzel Washington
Jake Shuttlesworth
Ray Allen
Jesus Shuttlesworth
Rosario Dawson
Lala Bonilla
Milla Jovovich
Dakota Burns
Hill Harper
Coleman "Booger" Sykes
Ned Beatty
Warden Wyatt
Jim Brown
Spivey
Joseph Lyle Taylor
Crudup
Bill Nunn
Uncle Bubba
Michele Shay
Aunt Sally
John Turturro
Billy Sunday
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal
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