Bad News Bears

2005
PG-13
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Baseball Farce Comedy Sport

A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

23K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations

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Storyline

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Trivia
Despite the remake having a higher MPAA rating than the original (PG-13 verses PG), the ratings board would not allow the remake to feature Coach Morris Buttermaker drinking alcoholic beer in the dugout as he had in the original. Strangely enough the board was fine with him spiking his non-alcoholic beer with hard liquor.

Goofs
It is revealed that Buttermaker only pitched two-thirds of an inning in the majors, and left with a 36.00 ERA. This is statistically impossible, as a pitcher completing two-thirds of an inning must have an ERA that is a multiple of 13.50.

Quotes
Morris Buttermaker: You guys swing like Helen Keller at a Piñata party.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Island/November/Last Days/The Devil's Rejects/Hustle & Flow (2005)

Soundtracks
Centerfield
Written and Performed by John Fogerty
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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Featured review

7/10

Billy Bob can win your heart!

I love Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa and the Bad News Bears remake to 2005 after a 29 years since the original film. The film has changed to modify today's world where computers rule the world which I said at 10 years old to an skeptical neighbor and where even a handicapped wheelchair-bound boy can play baseball. Thornton plays Buttermaker, the major league baseball player who turns coach rather than get a jail sentence. The mother of one his players is played by the divine Marcia Gay Harden. I think the kid from Bad Santa also has a role as does Greg Kinnear who plays a competitive coach. I love watching the kids learn the sport by killing insects since Buttermaker is an exterminator and they sponsored by a strip club. They start getting better in the beginning. They are lovable losers who face ridicule and humiliation every day at school. Suddenly, they get help with a girl pitcher and a guy who's a rebel.