Love & Basketball (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard), which elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn’t see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Omar Epps (Higher Learning) make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games, fall apart

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2000 featuring Prince-Bythewood and actor Sanaa Lathan
• Playing for Your Heart, a new making-of documentary featuring Prince-Bythewood, Lathan, actors Omar Epps and Alfre Woodard, Reggie
• Rock Bythewood, and basketball adviser Colleen Matsuhara
• Editing “Love & Basketball,” a new program featuring Bythewood and editor Terilyn A. Shropshire
• New conversation on the film’s impact among Prince-Bythewood, founding WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes, and writer-producer-actor Lena Waithe
• Audition tape excerpts and six deleted scenes
• Two short films by Prince-Bythewood: Stitches (1991) and Progress (1997), with a new introduction by Prince-Bythewood
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Roxane Gay"

LOVE & BASKETBALL BLU-RAY Disc - CRITERION COLLECTION

Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Dennis Haysbert, Debbie Morgan, Alfre Woodard, Harry Lennix, Naykia Harris, Jess Willard, Chris Warren Jr., Debbi Morgan, Shar Jackson, Monica Calhoun, Kyla Pratt, Glenndon Chatman, Harry J. Lennix, Gabrielle Union, Al Foster, Boris Kodjoe, Jesse Corti, Dion Basco, James DuMont, Elimu Nelson, Dick Vitale

Director: Barry Weiss, David J. Steinberg, Sam Kitt, Spike Lee

Rating: PG13