Kris D. Lofton

Keanu Reeves leads this feel-good baseball flick as an aimless young man scalping tickets, gambling and drinking who agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.