How is it that uncounted riches have been lavished on Keanu Reeves for his blithe essaying of screen characters — nuclear physicists, for example, brilliant advertising executives and lawyers, L.A. bomb squad hotshots — as which he will be believable on roughly the same day that frozen yogurt goes on sale in hell. Fresh from the triumph that was THE REPLACEMENTS, Reeves took on another sports-themed film, in which he is at least rather more credibly cast as a small-time Chicago-based gambler/loser named Conor O'Neill. Though promoted (not unreasonably) as a sort of urban update of THE BAD NEWS BEARS, this film is in fact closer in spirit to TO SIR WITH LOVE...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins