Hardball
The most important thing in life is showing up.
Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane and D.B. Sweeney score in this uplifting story of triumph over adversity that "hits an emotional home run."
Conor O'Neill (Reeves) is a down-on-his-luck gambler in debt to dangerous loan sharks. Desperate for cash, Conor reluctantly takes a job coaching a youth baseball team. The "team" turns out to be a ragtag group of tough-talking kids from Chicago's inner city. Secretly, Conor plans to desert the team after he wins a big bet. But the stakes are higher than Conor imagined: The kids need someone to believe in. As Conor wrestles with his past, the kids start to teach him some lessons that will forever change his future - that responsibility and trust must be earned and hope can appear in the most unlikely places.
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Enjoyable - MFisher
This is an enjoyable movie, but somewhat predictable. It is kind of like something we have seen before but with a slightly different spin. With that being said, I did enjoy the movie but found it very sad. It was a good story about kids who perservere when society deals you a terrible hand in life.An okay movie - imagination201
It could have easily been another Remember the titans or another great sport/coming of age movie, but a few elements weren`t quite there for that to happen. For example, Reeve`s character has a change of heart, but no real explanation about it other than being very stressed out about going on with his life as it is. The children, for their part, are very good, but not as attaching as they have become in other similar movies. Still, Hardball is not so much about the way the children play baseball, as what they go through the rest of their everyday lives.
It is a meaningful title.
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Enjoyable - MFisher
This is an enjoyable movie, but somewhat predictable. It is kind of like something we have seen before but with a slightly different spin. With that being said, I did enjoy the movie but found it very sad. It was a good story about kids who perservere when ...An okay movie - imagination201
It could have easily been another Remember the titans or another great sport/coming of age movie, but a few elements weren`t quite there for that to happen. For example, Reeve`s character has a change of heart, but no real explanation about it other than being ...