Fresh
Surprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
The Bad News Bears
The coach is waiting for his next beer. The pitcher is waiting for her first bra. The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities.
1976 · 1h 42m · PG
Comedy, Family
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Overview
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Director and cast
- Michael Ritchie Director
- Walter Matthau as Coach Morris Buttermaker
- Tatum O'Neal as Amanda Whurlitzer
- Christopher Daniel Barnes as Tanner Boyle
- Ben Piazza as Councilman Whitewood
- Vic Morrow as Coach Roy Turner
- Erin Blunt as Ahmad Abdul Rahim
- Jackie Earle Haley as Kelly Leak
- Gary Lee Cavagnaro as Endelberg
- Joyce Van Patten as Cleveland
- Jaime Escobedo as Jose Agilar
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An extremely funny adult-child comedy film.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
[Ritchie] keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time and obtains first-rate performers from his miniature cast all of the time.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
[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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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