Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 09/14/2001(USA)
Release Date: 02/19/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Television actor-turned-director
Brian Robbins follows up
Varsity Blues (1999) and
Ready to Rumble (2000) with another sports comedy.
Keanu Reeves stars as
Conor O'Neill, an underachiever and inveterate sports gambler who needs a bailout loan from a friend to pay off his mounting debt. As a condition for receiving the necessary funds,
Conor is saddled with coaching a corporate-sponsored Little League baseball team for underprivileged youth in Chicago's notorious Cabrini Green housing project. Reluctant at first,
Conor slowly begins to enjoy his new authority role, especially when he makes the acquaintance of his players' attractive teacher,
Elizabeth Wilkes (
Diane Lane). Based on the real-life chronicle
Hardball: A Season in the Projects by
Outside magazine editor
Daniel Coyle,
Hardball also stars
D.B. Sweeney and
Mike McGlone.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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