I hate all the movies about white people saving kids in inner cities

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Hi there lword1970,

I have not seen this movie in a long time, maybe years. If I'm not mistaken, the main character may have helped the inner city children, but also failed to help them on other occasions, and also one could say that they helped him in a way. In the funeral speech, if I'm correct, the main character said that the boy who got killed made him a better person. But if you didn't like the movie, I can understand. Different reactions for different people.

L, I think you missed the true point-these kids' trust and respect healed Connor O'Neil and helped him to "show up" for his own life. That's what this story is about.

It also helped that Reeves's character is no "white knight" riding in to save the poor black folks from themselves. He's a mess who needs the kids even more than they need him.

"There's no positive male role model in this film," he said. "White or black."

- www.whoaisnotme.net/articles/2001_0915_thi.htm

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Oh, but you've got it backwards.... It was the inner-city kids who saved the white guy. And, if the kid didn't get killed, the movie would simply have been a remake The Bad News Bears.

The movie wasn't about a white guy saving blacks kids. Actually, it was the children who helped the white guy become a better person. They needed him, but he needed them as well.

I thought there were so many more interesting things they could've done with the Conor character than have him coach Little League, but that's just me...

Yeah, I knew it was a sports movie, but that kind of hustler doesn't belong in an emotional movie, so to have him grow a heart during the course of the film will never, ever be convincing.






This is where the magic happens... and by "magic", I mean nothing.