Bad News Bears
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out former minor-league baseball player who enjoys drinking and acts on impulse. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon becomes the head coach of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
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Richard Linklater
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Andre Gonzales
Good movie. Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best being an a-hole. More coaches need to be like this guy lol.
Kamurai
Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend. I'm not a fan of baseball on any level, but this is a surprisingly charming movie, and Billy Bob Thorton is great with inappropriate humor. After this watch, I'm thinking this is from where "Benchwarmers" might have been inspired. I think it's more of the "misfits working together" trope that gets me, and you see it in lots of kids sports movies: "Kicking & Screaming", "The Sandlot", "Little Giants", "Mighty Ducks". This rolls in a lot of adult humor as well, so while you might have to have a few talks with your kids (which you should have had before watching a movie that would unexpectedly prompt them), but I think it's a movie that the whole family could actually watch. It's not great, but it was fun.
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Richard Linklater is the director of Bad News Bears.
The cast of Bad News Bears includes Scott Adsit as Umpire, Marcia Gay Harden as Liz Whitewood, Kevin Makely as Umpire, Gary Rodriguez as Umpire, Ridge Canipe as Toby Whitewood, Greg Kinnear as Roy Bullock, Jeffrey Hutchinson as Baseball Official, Billy Bob Thornton as Morris Buttermaker, Tyler Patrick Jones as Timmy Lupus, Kate Luyben as Daisy, Robert Peters as Yankee Dad, Sonya Eddy as Saleslady, and more.
The duration of Bad News Bears is 1h 53 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Bad News Bears trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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Bad News Bears was released on 22 Jul 2005.
Bad News Bears is listed under Comedy on Fanbiz.
Bad News Bears has 2 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.5/10. One reviewer wrote: "Good movie. Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best being an a-hole. More coaches need to be like this guy lol."
