Bad News Bears
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- Synopsis
- A washed-up ballplayer is put in charge of a pack of kids scarcely more mature than himself in this remake of the 1976 comedy hit. Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is a former major league baseball player whose career and life has hit the ......
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- Starring
- Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden
- Director(s)
- Richard Linklater
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 113 min.
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Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
New-era losers (the cast is a cheery scrum of relaxed kids, led by genuine whiz pitcher Sammi Kane Kraft in the role created by Tatum O'Neal) now include a rotten kid in a wheelchair.Read the full review
Variety | Brian LowryAdd Critic to Favorites
The new Bad News Bears has adopted a somewhat raunchier tone but delivers enough laughs to go the distance.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites
Does nothing to justify its own existence other than be consistently funny from start to finish.Read the full review
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Linklater Film Caught In Miramax Crunch
11/17/09 Disney's decision to slash Miramax's releases to three films a year, shut down operations in New York, and reduce its overall budget by 70 percent has resulted in the cancellation of the planned Richard Linklater romantic comedy Liars (A to E), MovieLine.com reported on Monday. | The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) -
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11/16/09 Out this week from Criterion is the 1969 skiing drama, "Downhill Racer," starring Robert Redford. | indieWIRE -
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10/29/09 I'm a Mets fan, so these days I prefer to consume my baseball in fictional terms rather than deal with the reality that my boys are a bunch of overpaid, oft-injured embarrassments to the triumphant – if drug scandal-tinged – legacy of Strawberry, Hernandez and Gooden. | MTV Movies Blog -
Film: AVQ&A:Cliché, hooray
09/03/09 I love the big speech scene , when the hero takes center stage and delivers this brilliant monologue that just kills everybody else in the room. | The A.V. Club -
Happy Madison plays ball
08/12/09 Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have acquired an untitled script by Johnathon Schaech, Josh Wolf and Richard Chizmar that comedically explores an incident in the life of ex-Baltimore Orioles player Rick Dempsey, whose Little League coach turned out to be a bank robber. | Variety -
Film: Newswire:Richard Linklater to direct Obama-inspired (sorta) romantic comedy
07/29/09 Richard Linklater, the director behind Waking Life , Before Sunrise , and, let's be frank, the Billy Bob-powered Bad News Bears , is taking a crack at a new romantic comedy. | The A.V. Club