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The Bad News Bears
2005
Billy Bob Thornton delivers a wickedly funny performance in this hilarious hit from the director of School of Rock. Morris Buttermaker (Thorton), former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a srtuggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a ragtag group of inept players .. Read more
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Genres | Family |
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The Bad News Bears
Billy Bob Thornton delivers a wickedly funny performance in this hilarious hit from the director of School of Rock. Morris Buttermaker (Thorton), former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a srtuggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a ragtag group of inept players who transform the field of dreams into the stuff of nightmares!
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft |
|---|---|
| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT (UK) |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Family |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Dec 2005 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Just hilarious.
Richard Linklater's remake deconstructs the sports film by emphasizing those clichés that have become their stock in trade such as training montage sequences and carefully crafted motivational speeches then spinning them with added violence and drunkeness. Billy Bob Thornton's broken major league star doesn't solve any of his personal problems in the end and fails to make any of the kid's lives perfect in the end. He just continues to be himself - sometimes that helps, sometimes it doesn't. The film listlessly progresses through the expected set pieces, pleasingly allowing the kids rooms to do those things we all remember doing, cussing, fighting and sometimes winning. This is unit born from grudging respect and ringers and for once it really is about the journey. Be warned though - that 12 certificate is on the nose because like 'Stand By Me' this isn't a kids films, there's swearing and sexual humour and it's written from the perspective of an adult. It's a film about dealing with the young for the old.
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- feelinglistless from Liverpool
- Posted 10 Jun 2006 17:18
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Bad News
I thought this was going to be a laugh a minute, but it was really disappointing to be honest. Not your typical underdogs movie but it had the potential to be so much better than it was.
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