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Marci Liroff is a Casting American born on 3 february 1958 at Los Angeles (USA)
Among those, 12 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Debra Winger
Roles Casting
Rating78%
In a California forest, a group of alien botanists collect flora samples. When government agents appear on the scene, they flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban home, where a 10-year-old boy named Elliott is trying to spend time with his 15-year-old brother, Michael, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their tool shed. The creature promptly flees upon being discovered. Despite his family's disbelief, he leaves Reese's Pieces candy to lure it to his bedroom. Before he goes to sleep, he realizes it is imitating his movements. He feigns illness the next morning to stay home from school and play with it. Later that day, Michael and their five-year-old sister, Gertie, meet it. They decide to keep it hidden from their mother, Mary. When they ask it about its origin, it levitates several balls to represent its solar system and then demonstrates its powers by reviving a dead chrysanthemum.
, 1h58
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone
Roles Casting
Rating74%
In 1935, Indiana Jones - Indy (Harrison Ford) narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che (Roy Chiao), a crime boss in Shanghai. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick, Short Round (or Shorty) (Jonathan Ke Quan), and the nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of them sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape on an inflatable raft and ride down the slopes into a raging river. They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. During the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory.
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Roles Casting
Rating59%
Thomas "Tom" Popper (Jim Carrey) is a divorced real-estate entrepreneur whose father traveled around the world during his childhood. He learns that his father has died during an adventure to Antarctica and discovers that his father's will asks for his son to be given a souvenir from his last adventure. The next week, a crate containing a gentoo penguin (Captain) shows up at his doorstep. Eventually, five more penguins arrive. Popper intends to give them away but changes his mind when his children, Janie and Billy (Madeline Carroll and Maxwell Perry Cotton), think that the animals are Billy's birthday present. That night, Popper meets with New York zookeeper Nat Jones (Clark Gregg), who asks for the penguins. Popper tries to stall him by asking him to collect the penguins another time. Jones agrees but not before warning that the conditions in Popper's apartment are not good enough to raise penguins. Popper is forced to pay the board of his apartment to keep the penguins in his apartment and lies to his arrogant neighbor Kent (David Krumholtz) about there being no animals in his home.
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky
Roles Casting
Rating63%
Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) is an average teenager who constantly fights with her stodgy widow mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and annoying younger brother Harry (Ryan Malgarini). The two often fight about Anna's rock band which Tess hates because she thinks that they are all noise, Tess's upcoming second marriage to Ryan (Mark Harmon) which Anna is not emotionally ready for because her father died three years ago, and Anna's claims about her archrival Stacey Hinkhouse (Julie Gonzalo) who doesn't stop torturing her and has Tess convinced that she and Anna are still best friends like they used to be and sadistic English teacher, Mr. Bates (Stephen Tobolowsky) who gives her an "F" on everything she does no matter how hard she tries. Tess also disapproves of Anna's crush, Jake (Chad Michael Murray), and refuses to let Anna see him.
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Penélope Cruz, Bernard Hill
Roles Casting
Rating58%
Psychiatrist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) works at a mental hospital and has a car accident after trying to avoid a girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a road during a stormy night while driving back home. She rushes to try to help the girl. The girl turns out to be a ghost and possesses Miranda's body by burning her after she extends her hand to the girl. Miranda loses consciousness. Miranda next wakes up in the very hospital she works for, but as a patient treated by her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham (Robert Downey, Jr.). Drugged and confused, she remembers nothing of what happened after the car accident. To her horror, she learns that her husband Douglas (Charles S. Dutton) was brutally murdered and that she is the primary suspect. While Miranda copes with her new life in the hospital, the ghost uses her body to carry out messages (most noticeably, she carves the words "not alone" into Miranda's arm), which leads her former colleagues to believe Miranda is suicidal and is inflicting the wounds on herself.
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about school violence, Teen movie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Lacey Chabert, Tim Meadows, Amanda Seyfried
Roles Casting
Rating71%
Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) and her zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn) return to the United States after a 12-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. Cady attends a public school for the first time, meeting new classmates Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese). The two warn Cady to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, who are led by queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). The Plastics take an interest in Cady, however, and start to invite her to sit with them at lunch. Seeing that Cady is slowly becoming one of The Plastics, Janis hatches a plan of revenge against Regina, using Cady as the infiltrator.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about television, Ghost films
Actors Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Zelda Rubinstein, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke, Dominique Dunne
Roles Casting
Rating72%
Steven and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) live a quiet life in an Orange County, California planned community called Cuesta Verde, where Steven is a successful real estate developer and Diane is a housewife who cares for their children Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins), and Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke). Carol Anne awakens one night and begins conversing with the family's television set, which is transmitting static following a sign-off. The following night, while the Freelings sleep, Carol Anne fixates on the television set as it transmits static again. Suddenly, a hand of a white apparition blasts from the television screen and vanishes into the wall, triggering a violent earthquake in the process. As the shaking subsides, Carol Anne announces "They're here'.
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat
Actors Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Lynn Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt
Roles Casting
Rating71%
In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe) is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback (Paul Dooley), an old colleague of Will's. Also, an intense Internal Affairs investigation in Los Angeles is about to put Dormer under the microscope. Eckhart reveals that Internal Affairs has offered him an immunity deal in exchange for his testimony regarding one of Dormer's past cases. Eckhart says that he has no choice but to accept the deal, to Dormer's frustration.
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Jon Heder, Dina Spybey, Ivana Miličević
Roles Casting
Rating67%
Elizabeth Masterson (Witherspoon), a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott (Ruffalo), a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth's, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a 'fateful' happenstance.
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
Roles Casting
Rating66%
Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager raised in Chicago, moves to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt and uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren makes a friend, Willard Hewitt (Chris Penn), and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a rebellious girl named Ariel (Lori Singer), who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), and a domineering father, Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), an authority figure in the town.
Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about altered memories, Environmental films, Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, M. Emmet Walsh, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah
Roles Casting
Rating80%
In Los Angeles, November 2019, retired police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is detained by officer Gaff (Edward James Olmos) and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh). Deckard, whose job as a "Blade Runner" was to track down bioengineered beings known as replicants and destroy them, is informed that four have come to Earth illegally. As Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 models, they have only a four-year lifespan and may have come to Earth to try to extend their lives.
Directed by Brian Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Baseball films, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, D. B. Sweeney, Michael B. Jordan, Bryan Hearne, John Hawkes
Roles Casting
Rating64%
Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his (dead) father's account and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled fifth grade kids from Chicago's ABLA housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.
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Among those, 12 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
, 1h55Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Debra Winger
Roles Casting
Rating78%
In a California forest, a group of alien botanists collect flora samples. When government agents appear on the scene, they flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban home, where a 10-year-old boy named Elliott is trying to spend time with his 15-year-old brother, Michael, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their tool shed. The creature promptly flees upon being discovered. Despite his family's disbelief, he leaves Reese's Pieces candy to lure it to his bedroom. Before he goes to sleep, he realizes it is imitating his movements. He feigns illness the next morning to stay home from school and play with it. Later that day, Michael and their five-year-old sister, Gertie, meet it. They decide to keep it hidden from their mother, Mary. When they ask it about its origin, it levitates several balls to represent its solar system and then demonstrates its powers by reviving a dead chrysanthemum.
, 1h58Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone
Roles Casting
Rating74%
In 1935, Indiana Jones - Indy (Harrison Ford) narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che (Roy Chiao), a crime boss in Shanghai. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick, Short Round (or Shorty) (Jonathan Ke Quan), and the nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of them sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape on an inflatable raft and ride down the slopes into a raging river. They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. During the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory.
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Roles Casting
Rating59%
Thomas "Tom" Popper (Jim Carrey) is a divorced real-estate entrepreneur whose father traveled around the world during his childhood. He learns that his father has died during an adventure to Antarctica and discovers that his father's will asks for his son to be given a souvenir from his last adventure. The next week, a crate containing a gentoo penguin (Captain) shows up at his doorstep. Eventually, five more penguins arrive. Popper intends to give them away but changes his mind when his children, Janie and Billy (Madeline Carroll and Maxwell Perry Cotton), think that the animals are Billy's birthday present. That night, Popper meets with New York zookeeper Nat Jones (Clark Gregg), who asks for the penguins. Popper tries to stall him by asking him to collect the penguins another time. Jones agrees but not before warning that the conditions in Popper's apartment are not good enough to raise penguins. Popper is forced to pay the board of his apartment to keep the penguins in his apartment and lies to his arrogant neighbor Kent (David Krumholtz) about there being no animals in his home.
Freaky Friday (2003)
, 1h37Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky
Roles Casting
Rating63%
Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) is an average teenager who constantly fights with her stodgy widow mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and annoying younger brother Harry (Ryan Malgarini). The two often fight about Anna's rock band which Tess hates because she thinks that they are all noise, Tess's upcoming second marriage to Ryan (Mark Harmon) which Anna is not emotionally ready for because her father died three years ago, and Anna's claims about her archrival Stacey Hinkhouse (Julie Gonzalo) who doesn't stop torturing her and has Tess convinced that she and Anna are still best friends like they used to be and sadistic English teacher, Mr. Bates (Stephen Tobolowsky) who gives her an "F" on everything she does no matter how hard she tries. Tess also disapproves of Anna's crush, Jake (Chad Michael Murray), and refuses to let Anna see him.
Gothika (2003)
, 1h38Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Penélope Cruz, Bernard Hill
Roles Casting
Rating58%
Psychiatrist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) works at a mental hospital and has a car accident after trying to avoid a girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a road during a stormy night while driving back home. She rushes to try to help the girl. The girl turns out to be a ghost and possesses Miranda's body by burning her after she extends her hand to the girl. Miranda loses consciousness. Miranda next wakes up in the very hospital she works for, but as a patient treated by her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham (Robert Downey, Jr.). Drugged and confused, she remembers nothing of what happened after the car accident. To her horror, she learns that her husband Douglas (Charles S. Dutton) was brutally murdered and that she is the primary suspect. While Miranda copes with her new life in the hospital, the ghost uses her body to carry out messages (most noticeably, she carves the words "not alone" into Miranda's arm), which leads her former colleagues to believe Miranda is suicidal and is inflicting the wounds on herself.
Mean Girls (2004)
, 1h37Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about school violence, Teen movie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Lacey Chabert, Tim Meadows, Amanda Seyfried
Roles Casting
Rating71%
Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) and her zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn) return to the United States after a 12-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. Cady attends a public school for the first time, meeting new classmates Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese). The two warn Cady to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, who are led by queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). The Plastics take an interest in Cady, however, and start to invite her to sit with them at lunch. Seeing that Cady is slowly becoming one of The Plastics, Janis hatches a plan of revenge against Regina, using Cady as the infiltrator.
Poltergeist (1982)
, 1h55Directed by Steven Spielberg, Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about television, Ghost films
Actors Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Zelda Rubinstein, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke, Dominique Dunne
Roles Casting
Rating72%
Steven and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) live a quiet life in an Orange County, California planned community called Cuesta Verde, where Steven is a successful real estate developer and Diane is a housewife who cares for their children Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins), and Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke). Carol Anne awakens one night and begins conversing with the family's television set, which is transmitting static following a sign-off. The following night, while the Freelings sleep, Carol Anne fixates on the television set as it transmits static again. Suddenly, a hand of a white apparition blasts from the television screen and vanishes into the wall, triggering a violent earthquake in the process. As the shaking subsides, Carol Anne announces "They're here'.
Insomnia (2002)
, 1h58Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat
Actors Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Lynn Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt
Roles Casting
Rating71%
In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe) is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback (Paul Dooley), an old colleague of Will's. Also, an intense Internal Affairs investigation in Los Angeles is about to put Dormer under the microscope. Eckhart reveals that Internal Affairs has offered him an immunity deal in exchange for his testimony regarding one of Dormer's past cases. Eckhart says that he has no choice but to accept the deal, to Dormer's frustration.
Just Like Heaven (2005)
, 1h35Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Jon Heder, Dina Spybey, Ivana Miličević
Roles Casting
Rating67%
Elizabeth Masterson (Witherspoon), a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott (Ruffalo), a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth's, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a 'fateful' happenstance.
Footloose (1984)
, 1h47Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
Roles Casting
Rating66%
Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager raised in Chicago, moves to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt and uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren makes a friend, Willard Hewitt (Chris Penn), and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a rebellious girl named Ariel (Lori Singer), who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), and a domineering father, Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), an authority figure in the town.
Blade Runner (1982)
, 1h56Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about altered memories, Environmental films, Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, M. Emmet Walsh, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah
Roles Casting
Rating80%
In Los Angeles, November 2019, retired police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is detained by officer Gaff (Edward James Olmos) and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh). Deckard, whose job as a "Blade Runner" was to track down bioengineered beings known as replicants and destroy them, is informed that four have come to Earth illegally. As Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 models, they have only a four-year lifespan and may have come to Earth to try to extend their lives.
Hardball (2001)
, 1h46Directed by Brian Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Baseball films, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, D. B. Sweeney, Michael B. Jordan, Bryan Hearne, John Hawkes
Roles Casting
Rating64%
Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his (dead) father's account and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled fifth grade kids from Chicago's ABLA housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.