
Hardball
2001


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For Natia, firing bullets at her sister's head and narrowly missing is all in a days work. After taking over the family business, her sharp shooting act is the only thing keeping the declining Orbeliani Circus afloat. When a stranger and his dog drifts into her home town of Batumi, Georgia from the Black Sea, peddling his own act, Natia wonders if a change of fortune is finally on the horizon. As the circus's prospects begin to rise so do suspicions that the stranger is not who he seems. A fateful interaction forces changes upon Natia and she must leave her family to protect them from what she is becoming. Soon, she is traveling to a different city-by-the-bay, San Francisco, where confrontation and opportunity release a violent darkness rooting within her. Fighting against her loneliness and the rules of this new world, she is befriended by a troubled young artist with an innocent soul. Will this tenuous love lead her out of the darkness? Or, are they merely two halves of broken whole?
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Christopher CoppolaWriter
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**_Freestyle indie about a cursed woman from Eastern Europe in San Francisco_** Cowriter & director Christopher Coppola (Nicolas Cage’s older brother) knows how to make a conventional vampire flick in the modern day in light of his very first film from the late ’80s, “Dracula’s Widow.” This is more in the vein of the maudlin “Byzantium” from three years prior, except on an indie budget. While “Byzantium” is technically the superior film since it had way more money in which to work, this one has more meat on its bones and is therefore more interesting, at least to me. There are about six…
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