The Bad News Bears
The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau as alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher Morris Buttermaker who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears. The film's cast includes Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter. Its score, composed by Jerry Fielding, adapts the principal themes of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.
Plot
In 1976, Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic pool cleaner and former minor-league baseball pitcher, accepts a secretive cash payment from lawyer Bob Whitewood to coach his son Toby's youth baseball league expansion team, the Bears. The team is made up of unskilled players, formed as a settlement to a lawsuit brought against the league for excluding such players from other teams. Shunned by the more competitive teams (and their competitive parents and coaches), the Bears are considered outsiders and the least talented team in the Southern California league.
More details
| author | Bill Lancaster |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Michael Ritchie |
| editor | Richard A. Harris |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | baseball pitcher bench-warmers coach comebacker end expansion team game harley-davidson juvenile delinquency nothing open past relationship pitch pool cleaner record southern california substitution teach unskilled win |
| musicBy | Jerry Fielding |
| producer | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | sports comedy |