Bad News Bears

Bad News Bears

2005-07-22 • 1h 53m • PG-13 •
Comedy
5.8
User Score
268 votes

"Baseball has rules. Meet the exceptions."

Overview

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.

Richard Linklater

Director

John Requa

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$34,252,847

Runtime

1h 53m

Release Date

2005-07-22

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Reviews

Kamurai

Kamurai

2020-09-22T23:53:24.929Z

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend. I'm not a fan of baseball on any level, but this is a surprisingly charming movie, and Billy Bob Thorton is great with inappropriate humor. After this watch, I'm thinking this is from where "Benchwarmers" might have been inspired. I think it's more of the "misfits working together" trope that gets me, and you see it in lots of kids sports movies: "Kicking & Screaming", "The Sandlot", "Little Giants", "Mighty Ducks". This rolls in a lot of adult humor as well, so while you might have to have a few talks with your kids (which you should have had before watching a movie that would unexpectedly prompt them), but I think it's a movie that the whole family could actually watch. It's not great, but it was fun.

Andre Gonzales

Andre Gonzales

2023-04-25T01:11:06.964Z

Good movie. Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best being an a-hole. More coaches need to be like this guy lol.