Hardball (film)

Hardball is a 2001 American dramedy film directed by Brian Robbins. It stars Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane and D. B. Sweeney. The screenplay by John Gatins is based on the book Hardball A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle. The original music score is composed by Mark Isham.

Worried only about getting his 500 check, Conor shows up at the baseball field to a rag tag bunch of trashtalking, streetwise, inner city kids called crack babies who live in the projects, where people have to sit on the floor in their apartments to avoid stray bullets. Conors efforts are hindered from the onset by the fact that he does not have nine kids to make up the teamone kid, having altered his birth certificate to be younger and another, GBaby DeWayne Warren, who is far too young to play. The kids tell Conor it is because their teacher, Elizabeth Sister Wilkes Diane Lane, is making several boys finish a book report. Conor visits the teacher, but his life is threatened repeatedly by his bookies for not paying his gambling debts. He is visited by the mother of three boys that are allowed to play in exchange for his tutoring them.Conor works to get the team to support each other and stop trashtalking each others bad plays but the team nevertheless, loses its first game 161, which fosters hostility between the players. Conor brings them together by buying them pizza trading sports tickets for the pizza and leads the team to win their second game 93. The team starts to come together as Conor tries to kindle a romance with Wilkes. ........

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