Hardball

2001

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 70% · 113 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 70% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 35654 35.7K

Plot summary

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Director

Brian Robbins Photo
Brian Robbins

Top cast

Keanu Reeves Photo
Keanu Reeves as Conor O'Neill
Diane Lane Photo
Diane Lane as Elizabeth Wilkes
Michael B. Jordan Photo
Michael B. Jordan as Jamal
Vince Green Photo
Vince Green as Other Pizza Guy
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1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by alexparedesvera 7 / 10

This movie should have better ratings

This movie is one that has a little bit of everything. It has comedy scenes as well as drama scenes. Maybe, Keanu is not a great actor but his performance is not so bad at all. I think that people were a little hard with their opinions. If people want to have a good time of fun and entertainment, I recommend this movie.
Reviewed by synefra 7 / 10

Not a revelation but worth seeing

I didn't really want to see Hardball, I went in with low expectations. So I was almost surprised when staring at the 'rate this movie' screen I gave it 7/10, but let me tell you why (and trust me I thought about it for a few long moments deciding what to give it and why). First the downside: the story was predictable in every way, it was almost painful for me to see children so young using such language and being abused in so many ways, but it was realistic. The high rating I gave it was because the young actors were so very talented, and while the story was obvious it still managed to make me care what happened and what was happening. I wasn't engrossed, I didn't sob like a baby, I didn't find it a revelation on life and death. However, it was very much what it purported to be, a story about showing up. And it did have an interesting message about how something, that to one person can be so insignificant, can be so profound and life-changing to others. Keanu Reeves gets a lot of bad press about being a 'bad actor' but I found him very believable and thought he did an extremely good job. He has a lot of charisma and an amazing ability to make you care about his characters, and want, in the end, the best for them.
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