Hard Ball

A man helps coach a team of troubled African-American fifth graders from Chicagos ABLA housing projects to repay his debt, and despite tragedy striking, they come together to win the championship. Hard Ball is a 2001 American English-language Drama Sport film featuring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D. B. Sweeney, Mike Mcglone, Graham Beckel and Anthony Joel. The movie is based on Hardball: A Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle. Fireworks Pictures in association with Nides/McCormick Productions and Tollin/Robbins Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Tina Nides, Michael Tollin and Brian Robbins. The movie is directed by Brian Robbins. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Hard Ball was released on 25th October 2001 and takes a screen time of 106 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Hard Ball was made on a budget of $32 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $44 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by John Gatins. Cinematography was done by Tom Richmond and editing by Ned Bastille. The music was composed by Mark Isham.