He got game

Resource Information

The work He got game represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Normal Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

He got game

Statement of responsibility

Touchstone Pictures presents a 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee ; written and directed by Spike Lee

Contributor

• Harper, Hill, 1966-
• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
• Harris, Zelda
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Jovovich, Milla
• Kilik, Jon
• Smith, Roger Guenveur
• Washington, Denzel, 1954-
• Allen, Ray, 1975-
• Sayeed, Malik
• Lee, Spike
• Touchstone Pictures
• McKee, Lonette
• Nunn, Bill, 1952-2016
• Brown, Jim, 1936-
• Touchstone Home Video (Firm)
• Byrd, Thomas Jefferson, 1941-
• Public Enemy (Musical group)
• Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
• Brown, Barry Alexander
• Beatty, Ned
• Dawson, Rosario

Actor

• Smith, Roger Guenveur
• Nunn, Bill, 1952-2016
• McKee, Lonette
• Allen, Ray, 1975-
• Dawson, Rosario
• Byrd, Thomas Jefferson, 1941-
• Brown, Jim, 1936-
• Beatty, Ned
• Washington, Denzel, 1954-
• Jovovich, Milla
• Harris, Zelda
• Harper, Hill, 1966-

Composer

• Public Enemy (Musical group)
• Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

Director of photography

• Sayeed, Malik

Editor of moving image work

• Brown, Barry Alexander

Film director

• Lee, Spike

Film distributor

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Film producer

• Lee, Spike
• Kilik, Jon

Performer

• Public Enemy (Musical group)

Presenter

• Touchstone Pictures

Production company

• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks

Publisher

• Touchstone Home Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Lee, Spike

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• African American basketball players
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Prison furloughs
• Prison furloughs -- Drama
• Sports films
• Sports films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• African American basketball players -- Drama
• African American prisoners
• African American prisoners -- Drama
• Basketball
• Basketball -- Drama
• Closed caption video recordings
• College athletes -- Recruiting
• College athletes -- Recruiting -- Drama
• Coming-of-age films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Dysfunctional families
• Dysfunctional families -- Drama
• Father-son relationship -- United States -- Drama
• Fathers and sons
• Fathers and sons -- Drama
• Feature films

Genre

• Coming-of-age films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Sports films
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Drama
• DVD-Video discs

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A prisoner is granted a furlough in hopes of persuading his estranged son, the country's top high school basketball player, to attend the governor's alma mater

Cataloging source

MDK

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Malik Hassan Sayeed ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown ; music, Aaron Copland ; songs, Public Enemy

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R, for pervasive language, strong sexuality, some drug content and violence ; Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A, Coarse Language

Language note

In English with English subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH)

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.H379 1998

PerformerNote

Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper, Bill Nunn, Ned Beatty, Jim Brown, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Roger Guenveur Smith, Lonette McKee, Zelda Harris

Runtime

136

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action