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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 an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears.
Michael Ritchie‘s “The Bad News Bears” is intended as a comedy, and there are, to be sure, a lot of laughs in it. But it’s something more, something deeper, than what it first appears to be.
Jul 4, 2023 · Like the kids in The Sandlot, the members of the Bears team were foul-mouthed and often misbehaved. This made for great comedy, but The Bad News Bears still fit in with other sports movies that aim to make audiences cry.
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A comedy about the worst baseball team becoming the best bad influence. Director Michael Ritchie and the late Walter Matthau and Tatum O' Neal. Morris is an ex-baseball minor league player who...
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- Michael Ritchie
- PG
- Walter Matthau
The Bad News Bears: Directed by Michael Ritchie. With Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Michael Ritchie
- 1976-04-07
Parents need to know that The Bad News Bears is a rough-edged kids' baseball comedy with some profanity ("s--t," "bitch," "bastard," "spic," the "N" word) and really iffy behavior (kids smoke, gamble, and ride motorcycles). During the end celebration, the coach gives beer to the 11-year-olds.
A comedy about an area rarely touched until then in films (a scene in the James Garner - Kim Novak comedy BOYS NIGHT OUT was one of the few that dealt with Little League before this full study of it), THE BAD NEWS BEARS is a nice reaffirmation on what sports is supposed to be about: fun.