SYNOPSIS

Grizzled former professional baseball player Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is recruited by a strait-laced lawyer (Marcia Gay Harden) to coach the Bears, a woefully inept Little League team. He’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 (Greg Kinnear).

From the director that brought you “School of Rock” working with the writing team behind “Bad Santa” comes a hilarious 2005 homage to an irreverent 1976 comedy: “Bad News Bears.”


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

August 12, 2005

DIRECTOR

Richard Linklater

WRITER

Bill Lancaster, Glenn Ficarra & John Requa (screenplay)

COMPANY

United International Pictures (UIP)

GENRE

Comedy, Sport

CERT

12A

RUNTIME

113 minutes

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