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The movie comes by most of its comedy fairly easily. Matthau is, of course, an engaging performer, and the role's a good one for him as he sits in the dugout, hung-over and bleary-eyed, watching his Bears come out of the first inning 26 runs behind. The kids are good, too; Ritchie sees them in a fairly tough and unsentimental way, and lets them ...
Dec 20, 2005 · The Bad News Bears proved to be such a hit, it spawned two sequels - The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978). But without Matthau and O'Neal, the follow-ups fared poorly, both critically and commercially. They also lacked director Michael Ritchie, a master of sharp satires on contemporary life.
Bad News Bears: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft. A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.
Bad News Bears is 12536 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 6790 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Scare Package but less popular than Touching the Void.
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A fresh take on the irreverent 1976 comedy hit, "The Bad News Bears" follows a grizzled former minor league baseball player who is recruited to coach a woefully inept Little League team to a championship against their hated rivals, the Yankees. Rating. PG-13. Comedy.
The Bad News Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 24, 1979, until July 26, 1980, consisting of 26 episodes (three unaired by CBS). It was based on the 1976 film of the same name , that was followed by two sequels in 1977 and 1978.
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless ...
