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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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Michael Ritchie
- 1976-04-07
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
Walter Matthau ... Coach Morris Buttermaker: Tatum O'Neal ... Amanda Whurlitzer: Vic Morrow ... Roy Turner: Joyce Van Patten ... Cleveland: Ben Piazza ... Bob Whitewood: Jackie Earle Haley ... Kelly Leak: Alfred Lutter III ... Ogilvie (as Alfred W. Lutter)
Dec 5, 2019 · Michael Ritchie’s “Bad News Bears,” starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal, may well be the first intelligent “family film” in many years. Opening this week around the Bay Area, the film casts Matthau as a drunken ex-pitcher who is called on to wield a bedraggled group of kids into a winning little-league baseball team.
Walter Matthau. Coach Morris Buttermaker. Tatum O'Neal. Amanda Whurlitzer. Vic Morrow. Coach Roy Turner. Joyce Van Patten. Cleveland. Ben Piazza. Councilman Whitewood. Watchlist. I, Tonya. TOP...
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- Michael Ritchie
- PG
- Walter Matthau
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Walter Matthau (born Walter John Horowitz) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in ¨The Odd Couple¨. MatthowHe played Coach Morris Buttermaker in the original 1976 film The Bad News Bears. Matthau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in...
He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), King Creole (1958), and as a coach of a hapless little league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears (1976).