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Lovers | Affection
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Best Actress | 2001 | Sanaa
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | 2001 | Sanaa
Best Drama Poster Photographer | 2001 | D.
Sundance Film Category | 2000 | Gina
Best First Screenplay | 2001 | Gina
Best Song | 2001
Theatrical Best Screenplay Original or Adapted | 2001
Theatrical Best Actor | 2001 | Omar
Best Actor | 2001 | Omar
Outstanding Youth ActorActress | 2001
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | 2001
Outstanding Motion Picture | 2001
Best Romance | 2001
Best Male Performance | 2001 | Omar
Film Choice Actor | 2000 | Omar
Film Choice Drama | 2000
Film Choice Chemistry | 2000
Budget 20,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 27,728,118 USD
Producer Spike Lee believed the female lead should have believable basketball skills. Gina Prince-Bythewood said in an interview "I saw over 700 people for the part: actors, ballplayers, people who had never acted before in their life. It finally came down to Sanaa Lathan and Niesha Butler [a star player at Georgia Tech and 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year]. I put Sanaa with a basketball coach for two months and Niesha with an acting coach."
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sanaa Lathan said her basketball tryout was terrible because she'd never played before. "It was so embarrassing because literally I didn't know how to dribble. I didn't know how to hold the ball. But I'm proud of how it looks [in the movie]. I had no idea I would be able to do it."
The scene where the character Monica is pushed and receives a scar was added because Sanaa Lathan has the scar on her cheek in real life.
Alfre Woodard has also played Sanaa Lathan's mother in 2 other films: Something New (2006), and The Family That Preys (2008).
After playing a smooth-talking player in Waiting to Exhale (1995), Dennis Haysbert was hesitant to play another cheater. He told Jet he took the role because "Then I saw the emphasis was going to be on the father-son relationship. That was something that was close to my heart."
"Monica: I'll play you. Quincy: For what? Monica: Your heart."
"Monica: [reads note] "Q, you are SO fine. I been wantin' to get with you. Take me to the Spring Dance and I promise I'll leave you satisfied." [In a disgusted tone] Monica: Ugh... What a ho! Quincy: Why she gotta be a ho? Cuz she wants to get with me? Monica: Um, she's a ho because she's sending her coochie through the mail! I mean, she's not saying "You're a nice guy, and I want to get to know you." She's saying, "I wanna bone!" Quincy: At least she's honest. Monica: [rolling her eyes] Yeah... an honest tramp ass ho! But then, I guess you'll stick your thing in anything. Quincy: My "thing?" Didn't know you cared so much. Monica: I don't. Quincy: Who you goin to the dance with anyway? Spalding? Monica: Who's Spalding? Quincy: [nods at basketball in Monica's hands] Monica: [punches Quincy] Stupid!"
