Paramount Pictures
PG
Beer-guzzling former minor league ballplayer Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) gets an offer by councilman Bob Whitewood (Ben Piazza) to coach a Little League team called the Bears. What the Bears turn out to be is a gang of misfits who have no feel for the game at all. Trying to get the team together has become the biggest challenge of Buttermaker's life, and eventually the team gets better and better with the help of girl star pitcher Amanda Whurlizer (Tatum O'Neal) and hitting star Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley).
Utterly stupendous baseball comedy with hilarious moments and profane language, this really has good ways to be enjoyable, and is really beyond normal movies of its time. Followed in 1977 by THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING TRAINING, and remade in 2005 as BAD NEWS BEARS.
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