Great Film: Hard Ball
Wow.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can have such widely differing
*strong* reactions to a film. A number of negative reviews here, but let
me
add one more positive.
I loved this film, from beginning to end. I loved every aspect of it: the
story, the acting, the plot. I expected just another "Coach takes over
losing team and makes them winners" story. Those are fine stories now and
then, and I was not expecting anything more than mild entertainment. But
this film moved me. Now, I'm a middle-aged white boy, and while I've never
been rich I've never gone hungry either, and I've never had to worry about
getting shot on the way home, so maybe I don't really know what that
"sh*t"
is all about and maybe this film wasn't "realistic" in portraying all
that;
but it communicated to me, and that's what any film is all about. And
sometimes in order to communicate, you have to go half way between where
you
are and where the other person is, and maybe that's what this film did.
But
whatever, I got it.
Cast
- Conor O'Neill played by Keanu Reeves
- Ticky Tobin played by John Hawkes
- Matt Hyland played by D.b. Sweeney
- Elizabeth Wilkes played by Diane Lane
- Andre Ray Peetes played by Bryan Hearne
- Jefferson Albert Tibbs played by Julian Griffith
- Jamal (as Michael Jordan) played by Michael B. Jordan
