← Apex Mountain

Love & Basketball

2000 · directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood · 125 min · PG-13
23,918 feet · Prominence
915th of 24,106 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Love and Basketball’ With Bill Simmons and Jemele Hill

How this film scores

Draw49

Lifetime worldwide gross $28m, re-releases included; about $53m in 2026 money.

Rank4,126 of 11,051In 2000100 of 196

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Registry-preserved landmark of Black romance.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb7.2 from 26kWikipedia13k views a monthAge26 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 827 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 49 praise 80 legacy 55averages 61, placing it at23,918 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Omar Epps▲ Sanaa Lathan▲ Chris Warren

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sanaa Lathan19,824 ftOmar Epps19,517 ftAlfre Woodard18,466 ftRegina Hall17,968 ftKyla Pratt17,860 ftChris Warren17,779 ftGabrielle Union17,645 ftDennis Haysbert17,636 ftHarry Lennix17,632 ft