The Bad News Bears
The Bad News Bears

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Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and ave... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Bad News Bears:

Walter Matthau
Tatum O'Neal
Vic Morrow
Joyce Van Patten
Ben Piazza
Jackie Earle Haley

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Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and avenge an earlier loss to their nemesis, the Yankees.

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Time - 10/10 by Jay CocksSurprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie. It is very much like the team itself: no serious threat at first, but, finally, tough to beat.
Rolling Stone - 10/10 by Dan EpsteinThe Bad News Bears is about kids, but they're real kids, not bland, cutesy, lovable Hollywood moppets. These pre-teens are unwashed, obnoxious, cynical, fractious, gleefully profane, unrepentantly juvenile, and deeply untrusting of any sort of authority — in other words, just like the kids you probably played team sports with.
Chicago Reader - 9/10 by Dave KehrMichael 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. Sometimes Ritchie goes too far in avoiding the family-movie cliches the subject invites and indulges in some pointless vulgarity, but all in all, it's one of his best films.
Slate - 9/10 by Charles TaylorThe movie is both an antidote to the sentimentality that currently affects sports movies and the last hurrah for the glorious disreputability that characterized the genre in the late '60s and early '70s.
The Observer (UK) - 9/10 by Philip FrenchThe movie is both an antidote to the sentimentality that currently affects sports movies and the last hurrah for the glorious disreputability that characterized the genre in the late '60s and early '70s.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertThe Bad News Bears is, in a way, [Ritchie's] most harrowing portrait of how we'd sometimes rather win than keep our self-respect. He 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.
The Hollywood Reporter - 8/10 by Bill HigginsBeneath the mild verbal shocks lay an excellent screenplay handled by real talent.
IGN - 7/10 by Jeremy ConradThe Bad News Bears isn't the greatest film ever made, but it's definitely better than its two sequels and worth its cult classic status.
The New York Times - 6/10 by Vincent CanbyHas a number of other virtues that make it a surprisingly painless adventure. Among these are the screenplay by Bill Lancaster, Burt's son, who has the talent and discipline to tell the story of The Bad News Bears almost completely in terms of what happens on the baseball diamond or in the dugout.
User Review - 10/10 by LamontRaymondOne of my 3 favorite sports movies of all time, along with Hoosiers and Breaking Away. I love the politically incorrect feel of the whole thing. Matthau is pitch perfect, and Timmy Lupus represents the vast majority of us out on an island in center field. A must-see.

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