Walter Matthau is a cantankerous, beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher roped into coaching a little league team of misfits in this...
Walter Matthau is a cantankerous, beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher roped into coaching a little league team of misfits in this ruthless comedy. The Bad News Bears was a surprise critical and commercial hit, with critic Roger Ebert calling it "an unblinking, scathing look at competition in American society".
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80 %40,484 reviewsAudience score rating
"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"Ritchie keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time, and obtains first-rate performances from his miniature cast all of the time."
The New York Times"A film was released that got everything beautifully, hilariously and even painfully right."
Rolling Stone"Extremely funny..."
Variety"Intended as a comedy, and there are, to be sure, a lot of laughs in it. But it's something more, something deeper, than what it first appears to be."
RogerEbert.com"Isn’t it great when a piece of classical music gets forever redefined by a movie about a bunch of foul mouthed brats?"
Film ThreatThe Bad News Bears (1976) | Details
- Runtime
- 102
- Genre
- Comedy, Sport
- Country of origin
- USA