The Bad News Bears (1976)

Directed by

Michael Ritchie

Genre

comedy film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 344 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An alcoholic ex-baseball player takes over coaching a terrible kids baseball team. He teaches them to win by using his young daughter as a star pitcher.

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What happens

The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher Morris Buttermaker who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears. The film's cast includes Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter. Its score, composed by Jerry Fielding, adapts the principal themes of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. Released by Paramount Pictures on April 7, 1976, The Bad News Bears received generally positive reviews. It was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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