The Bad News Bears (1976)
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Synopsis
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Cast
- Walter Matthau
- Tatum O'Neal
- Vic Morrow
- Joyce Van Patten
- Ben Piazza
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Alfred W. Lutter
- Brandon Cruz
- Shari Summers
- Joe Brooks
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- Nov 9, 2014
A sports movie for the rest of us. A kids movie for real kids that are awful in the way that real kids are awful. Unapologetic, hilarious, and somehow sweet beyond description behind its vulgar exterior, never cloying or false in the way so many of its imitators are.
lairdMar 24, 2026Perfect. I wrote this after a rewatch of The Candidate: “Michael Ritchie’s run — Downhill Racer, Prime Cut, The Candidate, Smile, The Bad News Bears — is the best 5-in-a-row run of any American film director. That’s right, you heard me, I said it, and I’ll fight for…
carrieandtracyJun 12, 2025I’ll take a drunk coach over a Diddy coach any day
chxorlie - Aug 7, 2021
“The Bad News Bears” makes it seem like the absolute peak of cool…. to be deeply, committedly uncool. Based on screenwriter Bill Lancaster’s childhood experience with his legendary father, Burt Lancaster - “Bears” rejects its winning lineage and makes itself instead into…
theriverjordanMay 13, 2021"a stretcher for his balls?" my first favorite movie. i hadn't seen it since i was a teenager, but somehow it is better than i had remembered. the quintessential "lazy afternoon in the valley with a bucket of miller lite tall cans or some weed" film, youth baseball is…
eddieDec 30, 2025A grumpy and drunken minor leaguer (Walter Matthau) reluctantly decides to coach a group of highly dysfunctional little league misfits. This is a stone cold 70’s classic comedy. They literally don’t make them like this anymore. Not only is it occasionally offensive, but…
David Whitman - Aug 8, 2020
It's hard to argue with the film's iron-clad thesis: yelling at kids works.
Jordan Beaumont AndersonNov 9, 2014It has been said that the most important subject of the cinema is the human face, and I'm not sure if that was ever more true than in The Bad News Bears. Walter Matthau's face does the work of a dozen or so overpaid screenwriters, and saves us in the audience from a bunch…
JoeJun 19, 2021My favorite part is in the first game, when the Bears are just getting mauled by Vic Morrow’s jerkface Yankees. None of the Bears can hit, catch, or even throw, and it’s about 20-0. A Yankee is running towards second base, part of the procession towards a four touchdown…
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- SpindlyMan likedThe Bad News Bears
Aside from the racism and some questionable themes, this movie is pretty good. The kids are out of hand for sure and it pretty much embodies what little league is. The cast is excellent too!
mora likedThe Bad News Bears8.2/10. lord for a pg movie. oh how the times changed. The story, the comedy, the meaning was all there
Jayce Cornell likedThe Bad News BearsI probably needed to prepare myself before watching😂 I put it on because I had a memory of a time my coach yelled at my team as a kid and called us the “bad news bears” I just assumed this was some family friendly baseball movie. That is NOT the case.
- Jacob Hall lovedThe Bad News Bears
Hilarious movie that gets better with age. Walter Matthau was the perfect guy to cast
Beau lovedThe Bad News BearsOne of the best movies I’ve watched. I watch this every summer at least twice.
Roger Trujillo lovedThe Bad News BearsLove this as a kid and still love it as a 60 year old!
- Scranton Strangler likedThe Bad News Bears
Really funny and love seeing WM in this role
Justin likedThe Bad News BearsMovies about baseball>>watching baseball
Brett Peak likedThe Bad News BearsGood baseball movie deemed for families
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Metacritic
The Bad News Bears is, in a way, [Ritchie's] most harrowing portrait of how we'd sometimes rather win than keep our self-respect. He 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
Chicago Sun-Times
Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as PG (Parental Guidance Suggested). It's generally considered a family-friendly movie.
How long is The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976)?
The movie is 1hr 42min long.
What's The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976) about?
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Who's the cast of The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976)?
- Walter Matthau as Coach Morris Buttermaker
- Tatum O'Neal as Amanda Whurlitzer
- Vic Morrow as Coach Roy Turner
- Joyce Van Patten as Cleveland
- Ben Piazza as Councilman Whitewood
- Jackie Earle Haley as Kelly Leak
- Alfred W. Lutter as Ogilvie
- Brandon Cruz as Joey Turner
- Shari Summers as Mrs. Turner
- Joe Brooks as Umpire
Who's the director behind The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976)?
Michael Ritchie directed The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976).
Who produced The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976)?
Stanley R. Jaffe produced The Bad News Bears (1976) (1976).
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