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Sep 14, 2001 · ‘Hardball’ tells the story of a compulsive gambler whose life is turned around by a season of coaching an inner-city baseball team. That sounds like a winning formula for a movie, and it might be, if the story told us more about gambling, more about the inner city and more about coaching baseball.
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Sep 14, 2001 · Hardball. Conor (Keanu Reeves) is a ticket scalper, gambler and, now, Little League coach for a rag-tag team of kids in one of the toughest part of Chicago. He's no role model, but his buddy...
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- Brian Robbins
- PG-13
- Keanu Reeves
In HARDBALL, compulsive gambler Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) owes a lot of money to various thugs. A childhood friend offers to pay him $500 a week if he will take over the friend's responsibility to coach a baseball team in Chicago's Cabrini Green, one of the nation's most dangerous housing projects.
- D.B. Sweeney, Diane Lane, Keanu Reeves
- Brian Robbins
- Paramount Pictures
Hardball is a 2001 American sports drama / comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and starring Keanu Reeves in the main role, Diane Lane and D. B. Sweeney. The screenplay by John Gatins is based on the book Hardball: A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle.
Sep 30, 2023 · Hardball satirizes and sidesteps the trope of the white savior by showing that the inner-city children are already good as they are. Keanu Reeves' character, Conor, becomes a coach out of...
- Gregory Lawrence
Sep 14, 2001 · Hardball: Directed by Brian Robbins. With Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, Bryan Hearne. A gambling addict and ticket scalper living an aimless life reluctantly agrees to coach a Little League team from the Chicago projects as part of a loan agreement.
Hardball Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. At heart, it's still an underdog sports flick of the sort we've seen countless times. Full...
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