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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1976 DVD Release : 12 February, 2002 |
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The Bad News Bears description This likable 1976 comedy gently skewers the whole post- Rocky mania for movies about losers who find their mettle or salvation or purpose in life in competitive sport. Walter Matthau stars as a drunk who becomes manager of a pathetic little-league baseball team. When he brings in a talented girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal), the crew have an actual chance at winning some games and maybe a championship. But director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer) undercuts the romance of it all with the team's foul-mouthed tendencies and Matthau's own decadent spin on mentor-coachdom. Similarly to Ritchie's wicked comedy Smile --which lampooned the fervor surrounding beauty pageants--The Bad News Bears pokes fun at another American institution. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | When Comedies, Kids, and Everything Was More Laid Back. |
| "The Bad News Bears" inspired a franchise of movies and the entire kids' sports comedy genre when it was released in 1976. Now it's a trip back in time to an era when preteens smoking and swearing was PG-rated family entertainment. It's amazing how much attitudes have changed in 30 years. As we are now at the opposite extreme in what is considered normal behavior in middle-class youngsters, "The Bad News Bears" seems like a breath of fresh air. And its message to adults who compete through their children's' achievements is more timely now than it was then.
When a local politician (Ben Piazza) can't convince any parent to coach his son's Little League team, he hires former minor-league pitcher Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), now a drunken "broken-down third-rate ball player". Buttermaker steels himself to coach the hopelessly untalented kids by spiking his ever-present beer with whisky. But he grows fond of the boys and regrets the constant ridicule they endure. So Buttermaker decides to turn the Bears into winners by recruiting 11-year-old Amanda (Tatum O'Neal) to pitch and a delinquent hot shot named Kelly (Jackie Earl Haley) to dominate the outfield. This movie has a laid-back tone that doesn't hit us with any real intensity or messages until late in the season. It encourages the children's idiosyncrasies and indulges Morris' alcoholic malaise. Tatum O'Neal exudes charisma as reluctant tomboy Amanda. Her sass and childish self-possession steal every scene she's in. "The Bad News Bears" should be mandatory viewing for the "soccer mafia", as parents who claim every inch of unused grassland for soccer fields are referred to in my area. In the end, this is a fun film that says it's ok to have fun. It's not necessary to have a cow about everything. English subtitles are available on the Paramount 2002 DVD. |
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