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The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears.
- $9 million
- Jerry Fielding
- April 7, 1976
- Stanley R. Jaffe
Apr 7, 1976 · The Bad News Bears: Directed by Michael Ritchie. With Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
- (24K)
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Michael Ritchie
- 1976-04-07
The Bad News Bears franchise consists of American sports - comedies, based on an original story by Bill Lancaster. The franchise includes theatrical films (the original release, its two sequels, and the 2005 remake ), and a television series which aired from 1979-1980.
- Bill Lancaster
- The Bad News Bears (1979–1980)
- The Bad News Bears (1976)
Bad News Bears is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden and Sammi Kane Kraft. It is a remake of the 1976 sports film The Bad News Bears, produced by Paramount Pictures. Unlike the original film, it received mixed ...
- Richard Linklater, J. Geyer Kosinski
- Ed Shearmur
- July 22, 2005
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The Bad News Bears: Created by Bob Brunner, Arthur Silver. With Jack Warden, J. Brennan Smith, Tricia Cast, Billy Jayne. To dodge jail, pool cleaner Buttermaker coaches misfit Little League team the Bears. With principal Rappant's help, he earns their respect and even wins some games.
Summaries. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent.
