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Genres:
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Comedy /
Sport /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Richard Linklater
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Actors:
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Ridge Canipe,
Troy Gentile,
Tyler Patrick Jones,
Brandon Craggs,
Aman Johal,
Jeffrey Tedmori,
Sammi Kane Kraft,
Jeffrey Davies,
Carlos Estrada,
Emmanuel Estrada,
Kenneth 'K.C.' Harris,
Billy Bob Thornton,
Greg Kinnear,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Timmy Deters
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)98.5
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Plot Summary:
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Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pain in the arse killing worker and former practised baseball player (for a very needful of time), is recruited to coach and carriage a blemish baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown unacceptable of the league. ****SPOILER**** Although the band does not win the in the beginning become successful in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
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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 jou...
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.
Bad News Bears
Brian LowryFaithfully retelling the 1976 comedy about a team of misfits and their slovenly, beer-swilling coach, the new Bad News Bears has adopted a somewhat raunchier tone but delivers enough laughs to go the distance. Billy Bob Thornton hews toward Bad Santa territory as he neatly slides into Walter Matthau's shoes, while the rest of the cast, alas, doesn't measure up. Too crude for younger kids, pic's sweet spot should be among teens and young adults who weren't even born when the first tykes-behaving-badly exercise took the field. Director Richard Linklater struggles a bit with pacing (pic is 10 minutes longer than its predecessor and feels it), but Thornton's woozy delivery and the engaging subject matter mostly hold up. Working from a script credited to original sc...
Bad News Bears
With his hangdog demeanour, drooping jowls and aura of dyspeptic irritation, Walter Matthau was one of 1970s cinema's unlikeliest stars. Hardly actors would dare try to mimic him, and Billy Bob Thornton wisely doesn't crack at in Richard Linklater's charming if overlong remake of the momentous man's 1976 hit. Thanks to Bad Santa, Thornton has his own reputation as a louche curmudgeon. And the actor draws on this to the hilt in his r“le as Morris Buttermaker, a failed baseball pro turned beer-swilling nudzh exterminator who reluctantly agrees to coach an improper children baseball team filled with geeks, brats and fatsos. Having worked with kids in School Of Destroyed, Linklater brings out the best in this unruly mob and pitches a free-whee...
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