
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.
Leave your thoughts about He Got Game.
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDavid N. ButterworthSpike Lee got game. Ain't no two ways about it. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeIt's the best basketball film since White Men Can't Jump, only it's better. |
| Jam! MoviesBob ThompsonSpike Lee frames the playground basketball sequences with energy and style. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannLee is a long way from the size and scope of his best film, Do the Right Thing, but at least he is working on a subject he cares about and is doing it with polish. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenIf you can find it, this is a film worth seeing. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsJon PopickA long, boring, meandering, dog of a movie. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLee uses visual imagination to lift his material into the realms of hopes and dreams. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David DenbyThe movie is a volatile combination of ambitious mythmaking and nasty reality, and like most of Spike Lees work, it is also an inextricable combination of good and bad. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesLong after viewers have forgotten the storyline they'll remember the film's sounds and sights. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinLee may never have the narrow focus to sustain a film on storytelling alone, and he may never need it. What he has here is an explosion of spectacular gambits and a great high-concept hook. |