He Got Game

He Got Game is a 1998 American sports drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film stars Denzel Washington as Jake Shuttlesworth, a prison inmate convicted for killing his wife. He is also the father of the topranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth, played by NBA star Ray Allen. Jake is released on parole for a week by the states governor to persuade his son to play for the governors alma mater, in exchange for a much reduced prison sentence. This is the third of four film collaborations with Washington and Lee.

While seemingly a sound plan, it turns haywire due to the strained relationship between Jesus and his father. Upon his first moments outside of prison, Jake contacts his daughter Mary Shuttlesworth Zelda Harris, who is happy to see him. Mary invites her father to the apartment where she and Jesus now live, having moved out of their Uncle Bubbas place. When Jesus returns home from school, he is unhappy to see his father. Refusing to look him in the eye, he tells his sister to get rid of the stranger in their living room. Jesus later agrees to meet with his father at an alternative location away from Mary. Throughout the movie, Jake tries to persuade Jesus to attend Big State with seemingly no success. Eventually he divulges the deal set up by the governor, but Jesus appears unsympathetic to his fathers situation.Intertwined with the story of the Shuttlesworth family is the subplot of Dakota Barns Milla Jovovich, a prostitute who stays in the room next to Jake in the rundown hotel which the warden has booked for him. Dakota is being abused by her procurer and companion, Sweetness. Jake overhears the violence through the thin walls. Throughout the movie Jake is seen helping clean her wounds, and he Jake gave her some of his money to be used for his expenses during this week out of prison. Dakota is seen in one of the final scenes of the movie taking a Greyhound bus away from New York City. ........

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