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The Bad News Bears
The movie follows beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker and his team of misfits as they compete in an ultra-competitive California little league.
24 June 1965
10 December 1962, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1963, Dallas, Texas, USA
4 June 1918, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
28 February 1946, Santa Clara County, California, USA
30 July 1933, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
30 September 1933, Solano, California, USA
8 March 1961
6 November 1918, Toledo, Ohio, USA
March 3, 1921
21 March 1962, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
6 December 1969, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
5 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 October 1945, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 08, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Rife with every non-politically-correct social tic that '70s America had to offer, "The Bad News Bears" (1976) is a sports comedy that serves as a cultural benchmark.
March 14, 2007
This charming, funny film takes a gentle poke at Little League baseball and the American obsession with winning.
May 09, 2005
[Ritchie] keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time and obtains first-rate performers from his miniature cast all of the time.
June 03, 2005
Remains the best film ever made about kids and sports.
May 06, 2014
A small winner.
May 26, 2006
Matthau's perfectly restrained, brilliantly comic performance holds it together.
March 14, 2007
Michael Ritchie keeps his dead-end cynicism in check and produces a genuinely funny comedy about a Little League team managed by a lovably drunken Walter Matthau.
August 03, 2008
If all kids' movies were like this, you wouldn't need to drag parents to the multiplexes.
October 23, 2004
[Ritchie] directs scenes for comedy even in the face of his disturbing material and that makes the movie all the more effective; sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we can't, and the movie's working best when we're silent.
March 14, 2007
An extremely funny adult-child comedy film.
August 03, 2008
Surprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie.
January 26, 2006
Amiably engrossing satire on the 'win ethic' that offers a take-it-or-leave-it approach to its serious points about enforcing precociousness on kids, but consistently delights with its panoramic comic invention.