Hardball
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Movie Reviews of Hardball
Movie Review: It not Bull Durham or Field of Dreams but it is still good.
Summary: 4 Stars
Like 1993's Rookie of the Year, this movie also has a team that plays home baseball games in Chicago, but the team is not a major league team like the Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox. But instead it is a little league team. Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a man that has a betting problem, ans wins up owning a lot of money, so he turns to a freind who a job, and winds up being paid $500 to coach little league baseball, while he is out of town. The actors who plays kids on the team go from DeWayne Warren to Michael Jordan (not the NBA star). If you were (like me) expecting to see Michael Jordan playing Jamal, he is a kid with the same name.Movie Review: I love it when you call me big poppa!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I had little to no intention of ever watching this movie and luckily one day being bored I figured I would give it a glance...and eneded up glued to the TV right to the end. I was amazed that Keanu pulled this roll off. But the true stars were the kids, I really ended up feeling for them and the lives they had to live. The only thing they ever did that was ever fun....was play baseball. Bad News Bears it's not! Sure you know what the ending is and if you ignore the fact that Keanu never coaches them once until the end of the movie, you'll find a really great film you may have missed, like I did.Movie Review: A classic uplifting film for the human sprit
Summary: 4 Stars
I remeber Hardball coming out of the week as 9/11 back in 2001 and at the time it was released it was just the type of movie, the country needed. Hardball is a uplifting movie that makes one feel good inside. Keanu Reeves shows some of his best atcing since River's Edge. Diane Lane is very good in the female lead also. The kids on the team are all also veyr good actors , many of whom make a apperance for the first time on screen. The film will make you laugh and cry and I 'm proud to have it in my DVD collection. I give it *** out of ****.Movie Review: keanu hits a home run...
Summary: 4 Stars
i saw it a month after it came out and while it isn't groundbreaking, it is very good entertainment. the kids make the movie though...there were a couple of people who sat in front of me who complained about the level of profanity in the film. perhaps they were expecting mary poppins? this movie was real to me and i love baseball. one of those movies where you know what's going to happen and yet it's so good you don't care...Movie Review: Hitting Close to Home
Summary: 3 Stars
As a Christian, I didn't like the foul language in the movie "Hardball". But sometimes, the world isn't perfect, and kids raised in the projects don't tend to talk the way kids from the suburbs talk.
For four years, I worked as the Management Information Systems Specialist for YMCA Child Welfare, a division of the Chicago YMCA which managed the cases of numerous foster children. (When I first started that job, we were managing the cases of about 950 kids, most of whom were African-American.)
For the first year or more, our offices were located in a long two-story cinderblock building just a block south of the ABLA housing projects, where "Hardball" was filmed. I didn't drive to work, I took the Roosevelt Road bus, and then walked the rest of the way. So I had plenty of chances, five days a week, to observe the kids who lived in the ABLA projects. And I have to say that I think that the movie portrayed them pretty accurately. If anything, it may have portrayed them a little bit too sympathetically.
Of course, I may be slightly biased on account of my experiences. One time, when walking to the bus stop after getting off work, I passed by a large group of ABLA kids, who were playing in the water from an open fire hydrant. (No, it's not legal for them to do so.) Naively, I thought they'd leave me alone. Instead, they surrounded me and started throwing buckets of water at me. Innocent fun, if I had been wearing a swimsuit at the time. Not so innocent, since I was dressed in my work clothes, and I had my bookbag of papers with me, and I was on my way to my second job at the time. (I had to call my boss at that job and tell her I wouldn't be able to make it to work that night.)
And then there was the time several little kids decided to start throwing rocks at me as I walked home from work one day. I wanted to remind them that rocks can do serious harm to people. (Just ask St. Stephen, the New Testament Christian who was stoned to death.) Fortunately, their aim was lousy, and none of their rocks hit me.
I'm a white man, and I think that it's pretty rare for kids in that neighborhood to see white guys, particularly white guys who are walking through their neighborhoods rather than driving. That may have made me seem like an attractive target.
CHA projects in Chicago are not typically good places to raise kids. When kids are surrounded by adults and teenagers who are involved in gang activities and other forms of antisocial behavior, it tends to rub off on them as well.
Hardball is by no means a great movie, but it seems to me that it's a pretty accurate depiction of what life in the projects is like for children.