Bad News Bears

22/7/2005 1h 53m 5.8/10

Overview

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.

Director

Richard Linklater

Top Billed Cast

Billy Bob Thornton

Morris Buttermaker

Greg Kinnear

Roy Bullock

Brandon Craggs

Mike Engelberg

Marcia Gay Harden

Liz Whitewood

Ridge Canipe

Toby Whitewood

Sammi Kane Kraft

Amanda Whurlitzer

Reviews

Kamurai

9/22/2020

6/10

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.