The Bad News Bears
The movie follows beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker and his team of misfits as they compete in an ultra-competitive California little league.
21 March 1962, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
6 December 1969, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
9 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1933, Solano, California, USA
14 February 1929, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
30 July 1933, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
8 March 1961
5 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 July 1961, Northridge, California, USA
1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 06, 2014
A small winner.
August 03, 2008
If all kids' movies were like this, you wouldn't need to drag parents to the multiplexes.
March 14, 2007
An extremely funny adult-child comedy film.
May 26, 2006
Matthau's perfectly restrained, brilliantly comic performance holds it together.
May 09, 2005
[Ritchie] keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time and obtains first-rate performers from his miniature cast all of the time.
March 14, 2007
Michael Ritchie keeps his dead-end cynicism in check and produces a genuinely funny comedy about a Little League team managed by a lovably drunken Walter Matthau.
October 23, 2004
[Ritchie] directs scenes for comedy even in the face of his disturbing material and that makes the movie all the more effective; sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we can't, and the movie's working best when we're silent.
January 26, 2006
Amiably engrossing satire on the 'win ethic' that offers a take-it-or-leave-it approach to its serious points about enforcing precociousness on kids, but consistently delights with its panoramic comic invention.
September 08, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Rife with every non-politically-correct social tic that '70s America had to offer, "The Bad News Bears" (1976) is a sports comedy that serves as a cultural benchmark.
June 03, 2005
Remains the best film ever made about kids and sports.
August 03, 2008
Surprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie.
March 14, 2007
This charming, funny film takes a gentle poke at Little League baseball and the American obsession with winning.
