Film

The Basket

2000 · 1h 45m · Drama

IMDb

6.5

Rotten Tomatoes

41%

Metacritic

53

In 1918, when the wheat-farming townspeople of Waterville, Washington, welcome home their first wounded son from World War I, they're struck by war's harsh reality. As bigotry and hatred toward two German orphans divide the close-knit community, new schoolteacher Martin rolls into town with some strange ideas and an even stranger leather ball, striving to bring harmony to the town before it tears itself apart.

Peter Coyote

Martin Conlon

Karen Allen

Bessie Emery

Robert Burke

Helmut Brink

Amber Willenborg

Brigitta Brink

Jack MacDonald

Nicholas Emery

Eric Dane

Tom Emery

Brian Skala

Nathan Emery

Patrick Treadway

Frederick Treadway

• Rich CowanDirector

Release date

May 5, 2000

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Revenue

$619,042

Genres

Drama