The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978 and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS television series . Also notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Carmen.
Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), an alcoholic and former m...
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The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978 and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS television series . Also notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Carmen.
Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), an alcoholic and former minor-league baseball player, is recruited by a city councilman and attorney who filed a lawsuit against an ultra-competitive Southern California Little League which excluded the least skilled athletes (including his son) from playing. In order to settle the lawsuit, the league agrees to add an additional team - the Bears - which is composed of the worst players. Buttermaker becomes the coach of the unlikely team, which includes (among others) a nearsighted pitcher, an overweight catcher, a shortstop with a Napoleon complex, an outfielder who...
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