Walter Matthau
Coach Morris Buttermaker
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Apr 7, 1976 · A movie about an ex-minor leaguer coaching a team of misfits in a California little league. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow and others, directed by Michael Ritchie.
- (24K)
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Michael Ritchie
- 1976-04-07
The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears.
- $9 million
- Jerry Fielding
- April 7, 1976
- Stanley R. Jaffe
Bad News Bears is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden and Sammi Kane Kraft. It is a remake of the 1976 sports film The Bad News Bears, produced by Paramount Pictures. Unlike the original film, it received mixed ...
- Richard Linklater, J. Geyer Kosinski
- Ed Shearmur
- July 22, 2005
The Bad News Bears franchise consists of American sports-comedies, based on an original story by Bill Lancaster. The franchise includes theatrical films (the original release, its two sequels, and the 2005 remake ), and a television series which aired from 1979-1980.
- Bill Lancaster
- The Bad News Bears (1979–1980)
- The Bad News Bears (1976)
Find out who starred in and worked on the 2005 remake of the classic baseball comedy Bad News Bears. See the full cast and crew credits, including Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, and more.
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A comedy film about a drunken coach and his misfit Little League team. Critics praise its honest humor and Walter Matthau's performance, while audiences enjoy its nostalgic appeal.
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Hard-drinking, ex-minor-league hopeful Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) grumpily agrees to coach a Little League team at the behest of lawyer-councilman Bob Whitewood (Ben Piazza), who has a vendetta against the league for excluding his marginally talented son from play. After failing with his new team of misfits, Buttermaker enlists feisty and...
