Surprise! Love And Basketball is a movie that deftly combines a basketball obsession with a heartfelt love story, profiling a couple from age 11 to adulthood.

 Filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood, the Emmy-winning TV writer making her film directorial debut, infuses the piece with such smart dialogue and good social insights that the sports milieu is in balance with the drama. In too many sports-themed flicks, the athletics take over and turn the movies into a TSN or ESPN highlights package.
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"All is fair in love and basketball," says hotshot player Monica (Sanaa Lathan) as she engages in a little one-one-one with her NBA-aspiring boyfriend Quincy (Omar Epps).

 The sentiment paraphrases Shakespeare's quote "All's fair in love and war," of course. Just one problem: there is no truth whatsoever in the line as it applies to basketball. If all things were fair in basketball, there would be no such thing as a free throw.
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