He Got Game
He Got Game
“ The father, the son and the holy game. ”
CINEMA1998-05-01
DIGITAL2006-01-01
RegionUS
Runtime136 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
DIRECTOR / Director
Spike LeeCast & Crew
KEYWORDS
prisonparent child relationshipforgivenesshomiciderelease from prisonbegnadigungaffectationcollegebasketballangrydidacticdramaticadmiringadoringfamiliarsympatheticafrican american family
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Denzel Washington
From historical drama and social cinema to Oscar-winning performances, action heroes and classical roles, he built one of American cinema’s most commanding screen personas.
Denzel Washington is one of the defining actors of modern American cinema. From historical and political roles in Glory and Malcolm X to dangerous figures in Training Day, Man on Fire and American Gangster, and later performances in Fences and The Tragedy of Macbeth, he has moved between mainstream Hollywood, Black cinema, stage adaptations and action films while developing a screen persona defined by authority, intensity, moral conflict and individual will.
