The duo takes on the business of baseball.
Despite predictions that the country was in no mood for movies, the box office looked utterly unscathed over the weekend.
Critics mostly agree that "Hardball"is a kind of "urban" (read: "black") version of the Bad News Bears-- but that it strikes out in nearly every frame.
Only weeks before the scheduled release of Hardball the director was forced to remove more than 20 uses "of a certain curse word" so that the film could be released with a PG rating instead of an R
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 7, 2000 -- Funny Keanu Reeves doesn't look like Walter Matthau. But our favorite deadpan hunk will make like Mr. Matthau (the "Bad News Bears" years) in "Hardball," a new comedy about an inner-city Little League team that Daily Variety says Reeves will star in for Brian Robbins, the ex-"Head of the Class" kid who directed "Varsity Blues," which did not star either Reeves or Matthau, but instead featured that current "Dawson's Creek" kid. Whew. SORT OF THE MATT DRUDGE OF HIS DAY -- MINUS THE WEB SITE: According to Variety, John Cusack is in talks to star in and executive produce a remake of "Sweet Smell of Success," the 1957 Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis movie not-so-loosely based on the legendary columnist Walter Winchell. MAKING A DECISION IS HELL: Tobey Maguire ("The Cider House Rules") is mulling a starring role in the World War II per