Movie
Hardball
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2001-09-14
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions, GHS Productions KG, Nides/McCormick Productions
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Keanu Reeves as Conor O'Neill
- Diane Lane as Elizabeth Wilkes
- John Hawkes as Ticky Tobin
- Bryan Hearne as Andre Ray Peetes
- Julian Griffith as Jefferson Albert Tibbs
- Michael B. Jordan as Jamal
- A. Delon Ellis Jr. as Miles Pennfield II
- Kris D. Lofton as Clarence
- Michael Perkins as Kofi Evans
- Brian M. Reed as Raymond 'Ray Ray' Bennet
- DeWayne Warren as Jarius 'G-Baby' Evans
- Carol Hall as Pearla Evans
Crew
- Brian Robbins - Director
- John Gatins - Screenplay
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