Directed by:
Michael RitchieScreenplay:
Bill LancasterCinematography:
John A. AlonzoComposer:
Jerry FieldingCast:
Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, Alfred Lutter III, Chris Barnes, Erin Blunt, George Wyner (more)VOD (1)
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The coach is waiting for his next beer. The pitcher is waiting for her first bra. The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities when former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) takes a job offer to coach the Bears, a bunch of misfits who have no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer. (Via Vision Entertainment)
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The Bad News Bears is the absolute archetype of modern sports movies, in which a team of total outsiders joins forces in an impossible fight against an elite team. At the same time, it is still a fun positive movie that can be thoroughly enjoyed. The great Walter Matthau pulls off a first-class performance as usual making it a top-notch movie about a man who drowns the sorrows of lost successes in the beer bottle, until he finds a more noble way to redemption, and is full of his own heartfelt cynicism. You feel sympathy with him as he begins to train a group of a bunch of seemingly hopeless baseball players. Tatum O'Neal and Jackie Earle Haley are also great here.
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