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Hardball
Directed by
Brian Robbins
PG-13
2001
1h 46m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.4
41%
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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.
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Cast of Hardball
Keanu Reeves
Conor O'Neill
Diane Lane
Elizabeth Wilkes
Michael B. Jordan
Jamal
D. B. Sweeney
Matt Hyland
John Hawkes
Ticky Tobin
Bryan Hearne
Andre Ray Peetes
Julian Griffith
Jefferson Albert Tibbs
DeWayne Warren
Jarius 'G-Baby' Evans
Kris D. Lofton
Clarence
Graham Beckel
Duffy
Mark Robert Ellis
Baseball Coach
Michael McGlone
Jimmy Fleming
Dawn Lewis
Ellen
Mark Margolis
Fink
Greg Sandquist
Barber's Son
Jacqueline Williams
Lenora Tibbs
Michael B. Chait
Straight-Laced Kid
Stephen Cinabro
Gino
Tom Milanovich
Ed
Kwame Amoaku
Pizza Guy
Vince Green
Other Pizza Guy
Paul Turner
Bartender
Sterling 'Steelo' Brim
Sterling
A. Delon Ellis Jr.
Miles Pennfield II
Michael Perkins
Kofi Evans
Brian M. Reed
Raymond 'Ray Ray' Bennet
Carol Hall
Pearla Evans
Freeman Coffey
Darryl Mackey
Sammy Sosa
Sammy Sosa
Andre Morgan
Umpire
Reginald McKinley
Umpire
Adam Tomei
Barfly
Ronnel Taylor
Gang Member
Aaron Evans
Aaron
Alexander Telles
Alex
Josefus Duanah
Tough Kid
Jeffery Gatlin
Tough Kid
Steve Abbott
Waatas Coach (uncredited)
John Anton
Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Dave Daniels
Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Michael Mili
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Jerry Stanecki
Pitching Coach (uncredited)
Joe Wachowski
Spectator (uncredited)
Toussaint Waterman
Pallbearer (uncredited)
Johnny Yono
Spectator (uncredited)
Hardball Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A smarmy proposition passing itself off as family fun in the style of The Bad News Bears.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Works where it counts, on the emotional level.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Does surprisingly few lurches as it walks the tightrope between urban realism ... and family entertainment.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
This umpire calls Hardball out at first base.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
[Keanu] Reeves doesn't strike the right chord -- you never get the feeling he's not acting.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A surefire heart-tugger made with skill and judgment.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The filmmakers realize that playing baseball isn't nearly enough to fix what's wrong in these kids' lives, which might have made a more provocative ending than what follows.
Slate
Matthew Feeney
[Keanu] Reeves is often mocked for his blankness, but that quality is an asset here.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Director Brian Robbins' film ultimately seems as uninterested in penetrating the graffiti-scarred walls of its Cabrini Green setting as its white-bread protagonist is.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Even if "Hardball" is mostly soapy formula at its core, it's a formula that at least finds a satisfying groove.
CNN.com
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
It's not a bad concept, but it's poorly executed. What could have been a poignant story ends up being sappier than a maple tree in March.
Variety
Robert Koehler
There's no cork inside Hardball, but there's more than enough corn.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Just dreadful.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll do exactly what this formula hip-hop baseball saga wants you to do.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
We're always aware of the formula--and in a picture based on real life, we shouldn't be.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is so littered with cliches of genre, as well as clichs of artifice in Reeves' pained performance, that any semblance of social reality goes foul.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Hardball is an unpleasant tale of questionable redemption for a guy who rightly says, 'I'm just a loser.'
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
So much a copycat film, with so low a level of originality, that it makes almost superhuman demands on its cast of young actors, who need only the love of Keanu Reeves to turn them into a field of winners.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Never really transcends the formula.
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