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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. The film is known in some parts of the U.S. as Little Sluggers.Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his (dead) father's account and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled fifth grade kids from Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.
Worried only about getting his $500 check, Conor shows up at the ghetto baseball field to a rag tag bunch of trash-talking, street-wise, inner city kids called “crack babies" that live in the projects, where people have to sit on the floor in their apartments to avoid stray bullets. Conor’s efforts are hindered from the onset by the fact that he doesn’t have nine kids to make up the team -- one kid, having altered his birth certificate to be older and another, “G-Baby” (DeWayne Warren)
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