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MPAA Raing: PG
Director: Michael Ritchie
Genres: Americana, Sports Drama, Sports Comedy, Comedy
Box Office: / $32,211,330
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Summary:
The success this underdog comedy from director Michael Ritchie almost single-handedly spawned the kids' sports film boom of the 1980s and '90s. When beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) agrees to coach a little league team in the San Fernando Valley, he soon finds he's in over his head, having inherited an assor... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Walter Matthau - (Coach Morris Buttermaker)
Tatum O'Neal - (Manda Whurlizer)
Vic Morrow - (Coach Roy Turner)
Joyce Van Patten - (Cleveland)
Ben Piazza - (Councilman Whitewood)
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Review:
Bad News Bears is one of the most delightful blends of family and adult entertainment ever made. The underdog-made-good story may please and kids in the audience, but it's only one facet of the film's entertaining, realistic portrait of little league baseball. The real appeal comes from spot-on performances by Tatum O'Neal and Walter Matth... Continue >>

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