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Dominican Rep. Hardball
- Original title
- Hardball
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Keanu Reeves
Diane Lane
John Hawkes
D.B. Sweeney- Bryan Hearne
- Mike McGlone
- A. Delon Ellis Jr.
- Julian Griffith
Michael B. Jordan- Michael Perkins
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Sports. Baseball
- Synopsis
- Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES) directs another sports-related picture with HARDBALL, an uplifting story about a man who finds redemption when he's least expecting it. Keanu Reeves stars as Conor O'Neill, an underachiever whose gambling addiction has gotten him into seemingly insurmountable trouble. Desperate for money, he begs his friend Jimmy (Mike McGlone) to bail him out one more time. Jimmy agrees to give Conor a weekly stipend, but only if Conor agrees to coach a little league baseball team in Chicago's inner city. At first, Conor realizes just how unequipped he is for this particular task, as the assembled team goofs off, fights, and curses, paying no attention to his authority. Eventually, however, he gains their respect, and pretty soon, they're winning games. Meanwhile, off the field, Conor finds himself falling for the children's schoolteacher, Miss Wilkes (Diane Lane). He also places a potentially life-threatening bet with a high-level bookie, but after a miracle saves him and he begins to fully embrace his new role as a coach and father figure, tragedy strikes and teaches Conor a much more valuable life lesson. Based on the non-fiction book by Daniel Coyle, HARDBALL is an uplifting story that gets a boost of energy from its non-professional cast of youngsters.
- Awards
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2001: Nominated for Razzie Awards: Worst Actor (Keanu Reeves)
- Critics' reviews
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"The movie is so littered with clichés of genre, as well as clichés of artifice in Reeves' pained performance, that any semblance of social reality goes foul"
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It is only when Reeves meets up with his incredibly cute baseball team that this movie comes to life
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"The film takes a true story and drags it through a swamp of hyped-up Hollywood cliches"
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"Surprisingly brusque yet likable film"
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