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Hardball
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3802
- IMDb #3773
- Google retired #940
- Rotten Tomatoes #3368
- Letterboxd #3113
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4198
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2577
- Metacritic Critics #3618
- Criticker #3291
- Kinopoisk #2272
- AlloCiné #3024
- Trakt #3649
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 32, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 45, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A compulsive gambler is deep in debt to dangerous bookies. To pay it off, he reluctantly agrees to coach a Little League baseball team from the city's housing projects. The cynical man is initially dismissive of the rowdy kids, but their resilience and need for guidance slowly break down his defenses, teaching him about responsibility and redemption.
Details
- Director
- Brian Robbins
- Writer
- John Gatins
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) GHS Productions, GHS Productions KG, Nides/McCormick Productions
- Released
- 14 September 2001
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $40.2M
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Cast
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