Overview
- Genre
- Sports, Social Issues, Docu-Drama, Human Rights, and Investigation
- Synopsis
Hardball: The Girls of Summer" follows the top female baseball players in the USA, all members of the globally ranked US Women's National Baseball Team. They play BASEBALL - not softball - and fight for equality, recognition, and acceptance in a sport that continues to exclude women and girls. These trailblazers chase their dreams of winning a Gold Medal at the Women's Baseball World Cup, playing professional ball, and creating opportunities for the girls coming up behind them. This is their quest to prove that women and girls belong on the baseball diamond and have a place in America's Pastime. "Hardball" invites us into the exciting, passionate, and truly American story of baseball-loving underdogs taking on the world as they struggle to play a game against all odds. It confronts our cultural relationships to gender roles, women's athleticism, and the expectations we, and others, have for our daughters. It introduces much-needed role models: athletes who are leveling the playing fiel
- Stage
- finished
Credits
- Kinga Orlikowska Brooks ... Editor
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Hardball: The Girls of Summer" follows the top female baseba
- Country
- United States
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2019
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