Year:
2001
Studio:
Paramount Pictures, Fireworks Pictures
Feature: 3/5
DVD:
3/5
Keanu Reeves
teaching a group of inner city kids how to play baseball. That's the
premise of Hardball. What we
end up with is a more serious version of the Bad News Bears.
Reeves plays Conor O'Neill, a gambling with a huge debt he needs to pay
off. He gets a job as a little league coach where he has to deal with a
bunch of kids who want to play baseball but have no experience with the
game or with playing with others. Conor has a somewhat ally and
somewhat love interest in schoolmarm Elizabeth Wilkes (Diane Lane) and
he has a best gambling friend in Ticky Tobin (John Hawkes).
Really though this is a movie about the kids. All the kids were new to
acting and they did a good job. The story was fairly typical of the
genre except with a darker ending. There's nothing really remarkable
about the film to recommend it.
|
Extras
The Making of Hardball - 12
minutes.
Deleted Scenes - 3 scenes, 7 minutes.
Commentary with director Brian Robbins and writer John Gatins
Music Video "Hardball" (Lil Bow Wow and others)
Interstitials - 2 commercials
Theatrical Trailer
|