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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Jul 22, 2005
Running Time: 111 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Grizzled former professional baseball player Morris Buttermaker is bribed by a straitlaced lawyer to coach the Bears, a woefully inept youth baseball team. Buttermaker's got to find a way to drive this gang of 12 misfits to a championship against their hated rivals: the Yankees and their overbearing coach.
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Roy Bullock
Liz Whitewood
Tanner Boyle
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Toby Whitewood
Mike Engelberg
Kelly Leak
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Joey Bullock
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PETER TRAVERS -
July 22, 2005
Billy Bob Thornton is the best weapon against cute that a kid baseball movie ever had. Like Bill Murray, Thornton is allergic to uplift. As Morris Buttermaker, the boozing pussy-hound coach of the Bears -- a losing team of California misfits -- Thornton cuts the brats no slack. "You look like the last shit I took," he drawls. Welcome to Bad Santa baseball with Santa's writing elves Glenn Ficarra and John Requa reteaming with Thornton to rock the PG-13 rating. In terms of drugs, the film tones…
Even though this Bad News Bears redo is almost exactly like the 1976 original, watching Billy Bob Thornton play another grizzled drunkard, who teaches a bunch of smart-alecky kids his own particularly twisted game of baseball, is amusing enough. Story Morris Buttermaker (Thornton) doesn't really let himself get too involved in anything. He wakes up, drinks a beer, exterminates a few household pests for a living, drinks some more beers and maybe gets laid. That's about it. Sure, he was once a… |
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