Hardball

(2001)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 579 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2001

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: Germany, United States of America

Director: Brian Robbins

Cast: Киану Ривз, Дайан Лейн, Джон Хоукс, Bryan Hearne, Julian Griffith, Майкл Б. Джордан, A. Delon Ellis Jr., Kris D. Lofton, Michael Perkins, Brian M. Reed

Plot

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.

Bright, educated, handsome Conor O'Neill's promising future was wrecked by his gambling addiction, which dragged him into heavy drinking and petty crime, but worst of all, the stifling grip of loan-shark bookies. Desperate for a loan, he agrees to stand in for lawyer friend Jimmy Fleming as coach of a Chicago ghetto Little League baseball team. His sense of pride, becoming the boys' sole idol, and competition, plus their attractive teacher, motivate Conor. But the crushing loan problem rather requires leaving town.