Review: Hardball
'H ardball' tells the story of a compulsive gambler whose life is turned around by a season of coaching an inner-city baseball team. ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 09/14/01
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Review: Hardball
Hardball has variously been compared to The Bad News Bears and The Mighty Ducks , but this movie strives to be more hard-hitting than either of ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Teaching Inner City Kids Baseball and (Sniff!) Life
The NY Times review of Hardball, a Brian Robbins film starring Keanu Reeves and Diane Lane. Hardball movie trailer, showtimes, tickets and reader ...
The New York Times - Stephen Holden - 09/15/01
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'Hardball' has good stuff
Hardball is a two-hankie sports soap opera, but don't hold that against it. With surprising melodrama, the film packs some powerful emotional ...
Rocky Mountain News - David Germain, Associated Press - 09/14/01
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Familiar Hardball on base
It's a new look at the same plot that was seen in The Mighty Ducks, Bad News Bears It may not hit any home runs, but Hardball keeps its bases ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 09/14/01
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Hardball cliched but works
Hardball is a movie about a baseball manager with a gambling problem. No, it's not the Pete Rose story. It's The Bad News Bears, updated. ...
Canoe.ca - JOHN KRYK - 09/14/01
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Review: HARDBALL
How is it that uncounted riches have been lavished on Keanu Reeves for his blithe essaying of screen characters nuclear physicists, for example, ...
TV Guide - Steve Simels
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BBC - Films - review - Hardball
Keanu Reeves is positively likable as he takes on an inner city baseball team in this mawkish but fun sports yarn. Movies don't come much more ...
BBC - Andy Jacobs - 06/20/02
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Review: Hardball
Conor (Keanu Reeves and G-Baby (DeWayne Warren) in Hardball. Here's a couple of words no one ever wanted to hear Keanu Reeves speak: They say that ...
Palo Alto Online - Joe Mader
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Review: Hardball
Step right up, ladies and gents, and watch Keanu Reeves coach Little League in a Chicago ghetto. Thrill to the sound of ten-year-old teammates ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: HARDBALL
Keanu Reeves strikes out with 'Hardball' By WILLIAM ARNOLD SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER MOVIE CRITICReeves plays a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Editorial Review - 09/14/01
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Review: Hardball
If Biggie Smalls weren't dead already, certainly the sight and sound of Keanu Reeves murdering his hit "Big Poppa" not once, ...
Film Threat - Michæl Dequina - 09/25/01
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Review: Hardball
A cornball, button-pushing "Bad News Bear"-rehash that hauls out every heartstring-pulling trick in the book, the new Keanu Reeves vehicle might ...
Film Threat - Rick Kisonak - 09/17/01
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Review: Hardball
Brian Robbins Hardball is quite the cinematic achievement. In about two hours, we get a glancing examination of ghetto life, a funeral with a ...
FilmCritic.com - Pete Croatto
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Review: Hardball
With any well-rounded family film, it's almost always a good idea to tell a story about sports -- they're a hobby and a pastime we're all familiar ...
Kinnopio.com - Andy Zientek
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Review: Hardball
(Note: There is a spoiler warning later in this review. Watch for it, and follow its instructions if you don't want to have a major plot point ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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JoBlo's movie review of Hardball: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, DeWayne Warren
Every other year, there seems to be a film that comes out of left field for me (pun intended). A movie that makes me forget about all of the more ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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Review: Hardball
"Play baseball with you." Hardball isn't what the advertising made it look like, but it's too close. It could have been an extraordinary story in ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: Hardball (2001)
A troubled man who gets coaxed into coaching an underdog Little League baseball team. A group of kids who open up his eyes to the world, ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 09/14/01
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Hardball (2001) - Family Movie Review
CONOR O'NEIL (KEANU REEVES) IS AFRAID of dark alleys and well he should be. With a growing number of outstanding betting debts, he is a man on the ...
Grading the Movies - Kerry Bennett
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HARDBALL Film Review
Keanu Reeves plays Conor O' Neil, a ticket scalping, chain-smoking, alcoholic gambler whose life is passing him by. As his debts start to catch up ...
Boxoffice Online - Tim Cogshell
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Review: Hardball
Put simply and this comedy-drama hardly harks to the complex this is The Bad News Bears with gritty urban realism, as Reeves inveterate gambler ...
Empire Online - Ian Nathan
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Review: Hardball (2001)
Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, Trevor Morgan, DB Sweeney, Brian Hearne, Julian Griffith, Michael B. Jordan, Graham Beckel, Alan Ellis Jr., ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Edward Johnson-Ott - 09/17/01
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Review: Hardball (2001)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, DB Sweeney, Bryan Hearne, Julian Griffith, Michael B. Jordan, Graham Beckel Screened at: Loews E-Walk ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Harvey S. Karten - 09/17/01
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Review: Hardball (2001)
First of all, forget the trailer for this movie, because this is not, and I repeat, not a "kid's movie" or a "comedy" for that matter. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - JoBlo - 09/10/01
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