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What you will—and won't—find in this movie. Very strong language, most of it used by children. Drug use, scenes in bar, drinking, smoking. Parents need to know that this movie includes very strong language, including many four-letter words used by children. The boys are surrounded by drug use and gang violence.
- D.B. Sweeney, Diane Lane, Keanu Reeves
- Brian Robbins
- Paramount Pictures
Sep 30, 2023 · In the 2001 sports drama, Keanu Reeves gave us a different kind of coach. Hardball satirizes and sidesteps the trope of the white savior by showing that the inner-city children are already good as ...
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Sep 14, 2001 · Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/23/23 Full Review Nancy A Strong language by kids, but then the coach takes care of getting them to calm it down. Really loved this movie and have ...
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- Brian Robbins
- PG-13
- Keanu Reeves
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Permalink. A fairly good ball movie, Brian Robbins' "Hardball" stars Keanu Reeves as a chronic gambler who agrees to coach a children's baseball team in the hopes of paying off outstanding debts. Along the way, kids and adults grow, change and learn valuable life lessons.
John Gatins. '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. But it drifts above the surface of ...
More Detail: HARDBALL could have been a great family movie with strong Christian references like last year’s REMEMBER THE TITANS. Instead, the filmmakers have chosen to degrade the family-friendly, redemptive qualities in their movie with lots of sleazy objectionable content, including a badly mixed message about gambling. Keanu Reeves plays ...
