The Bad News Bears (2005)

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jul 22, 2005

Running Time: 111 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Timmy Deters, Seth Adkins, Ridge Canipe, Brandon Craggs, Jeff Davies, Karen Gordon, Carter Jenkins

director: Richard Linklater

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.

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…

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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…

Director

Morris Buttermaker

Roy Bullock

Liz Whitewood

Tanner Boyle

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