He Got Game is a 1998 American sports drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen. The film revolves around Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington), father of the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen).

He Got Game: Directed by Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson. A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

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A convict's freedom depends upon convincing his estranged son, a basketball star, to attend the governor's alma mater.

May 1, 1998 · “He Got Game,” the story of the pressures on the nation’s best high school basketball player, could have been a gritty docudrama, but it’s really more of a heartbreaker, about a father and his son. Lee uses visual imagination to lift …

A convict must convince his son—the nation's top high school basketball star—to play for a state university in exchange for his own shorter sentence.

May 1, 1998 · The father, the son and the holy game. A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top basketball recruit, his estranged son Jesus, to play ball for the governor's alma mater.

With a groundbreaking soundtrack by the legendary Public Enemy -- plus great cameos from John Turturro and basketball personalities Dick Vitale, John Thompson, Dean Smith, and more, HE GOT...