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Title Hardball [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents in association with Fireworks Pictures a Nides/McCormick production, a Tollin/Robbins production ; producers, Tina Nides, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins ; screenplay writer, John Gatins ; director, Brian Robbins.

Imprint Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2002], c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC DVD Collection  DVD 791.43 HARD 2001    ---  Available
Description 1 videocassette (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Based on the book by Daniel Coyle.
Credits Director of photography, Tom Richmond ; editor, Ned Bastille ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Francine Jamison-Tanchuck ; production designer, Jaymes Hinkle.
Cast Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D.B. Sweeney, Mike McGlone, Graham Beckel, Mark Margolis.
Summary A down-on-his-luck gambler finds himself in debt to a dangerous loan shark. Desperate for cash, he reluctantly takes on the job of coaching a youth baseball team. The team turns out to be a ragtag group of tough-talking kids from Chicago's inner city. Now, as he must wrestles with his past, the kids start to teach him some lessons that will forever change his future.
Audience MPAA rating: PG-13.
Form Also issued on DVD.
System Details VHS, stereo., Hi-fi.
Language Closed-captioned.
Subject Youth league baseball -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Youth league baseball -- Coaching -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Compulsive gamblers -- Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Genre/Form Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Nides, Tina.
Tollin, Michael.
Robbins, Brian, 1963-
Gatins, John.
Reeves, Keanu.
Lane, Diane.
Hawkes, John, 1959-
Sweeney, D. B. (Daniel Bernard), 1961-
McGlone, Michael.
Beckel, Graham, 1949-
Margolis, Mark, 1939-
Richmond, Tom, 1950-
Bastille, Ned.
Isham, Mark.
Jamison-Tanchuck, Francine.
Hinkle, Jaymes.
Coyle, Daniel.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Fireworks Pictures (Firm)
ISBN 079218162X
9780792181620
Standard No. 097363307938
Music No. 330793 Paramount
Standard No. NLGGC 242115128

 
    
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