Bad News Bears
2005 · 113 min
Directed by Richard Linklater. Written by Bill Lancaster, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft.
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Critics 48% · audiences 46% · streaming on Paramount+, MGM+, Kanopy