Bad News Bears (2005)

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton

Morris Buttermaker

Greg Kinnear

Roy Bullock

Marcia Gay Harden

Liz Whitewood

Sammi Kane Kraft

Amanda Whurlitzer

Ridge Canipe

Toby Whitewood

Brandon Craggs

Mike Engelberg

Jeffrey Davies

Kelly Leak

Timmy Deters

Tanner Boyle

Carlos Estrada

Miguel Agilar

Emmanuel Estrada

Jose Agilar

About Bad News Bears

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 Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.

Popularity

4.2

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$34,252,847

Release

Jul 22, 2005

Genres

Comedy

Director: Richard Linklater

Writer: Bill Lancaster, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

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Reviews (2)

Kamurai

Sep 22, 2020

6.0

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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