The bad news Bears [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents a Stanley R. Jaffe production ; a Michael Ritchie film.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 08863 | Paramount Home VideoPublication details: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount, c2001.Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 0792178823
- 9780792178828
- Written by Bill Lancaster ; produced by Stanley R. Jaffe ; directed by Michael Ritchie.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | COMEDY Bad news | Available | 33111006589796 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The success this underdog comedy from director Michael Ritchie almost single-handedly spawned the kids' sports film boom of the 1980s and '90s. When beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) agrees to coach a little league team in the San Fernando Valley, he soon finds he's in over his head, having inherited an assortment of pint-sized peons and talentless losers. They play well-organized teams and lose by tremendous margins, and the parents threaten to disband the Bears to save the kids (and themselves) any further embarrassment. Buttermaker refuses, though, and brings in a pair of ringers: Amanda (Tatum O'Neal), his ex-girlfriend's tomboy daughter, and Kelly (Jackie Earle Haley), a cigarette-smoking delinquent who happens to be a gifted athlete. With their help, the Bears manage to change their losing ways and qualify for the championship, where they face their arch-rivals, the Yankees. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
Closed captioned.
Videodisc release of the 1976 motion picture.
Written by Bill Lancaster ; produced by Stanley R. Jaffe ; directed by Michael Ritchie.
Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow.
A former baseball minor-leaguer coaches a team of tough kids. His star pitcher is a girl.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD.