Bad News Bears (2005 film)
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- For the original 1976 movie starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal and Chris Barnes, see The Bad News Bears.
| Bad News Bears | |
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 Promotional poster for Bad News Bears |
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| Directed by | Richard Linklater |
| Produced by | Richard Linklater |
| Written by | Bill Lancaster Glenn Ficarra John Requa |
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton Greg Kinnear Marcia Gay Harden Sammi Kraft |
| Music by | Ed Shearmur |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Editing by | Sandra Adair |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 22,2005 United States |
| Running time | 113 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$35 million |
| IMDb profile | |
Bad News Bears is a remake of the 1976 movie The Bad News Bears, produced by Paramount Pictures. It is directed by Richard Linklater, and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kraft, and Aman Johal.
The writers are also the writing team behind the notorious Thornton movie Bad Santa. The film received mixed reviews. It received a score of 47% on Rotten Tomatoes [1]
[edit] Synopsis
Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is a washed-up alcoholic minor-league baseball player. He is an exterminator, who was kicked out of professional baseball for attacking an umpire. He is a crude womanizer. He leads a baseball team of poorly playing teenagers. Amanda Whurlitzer (Sammi Kraft) is the daughter of one of his ex-girlfriends. At his request she joins the team. They do not win, but have the satisfaction of trying, knowing that winning is not so important.
[edit] Differences with the first version
In the first film Buttermaker was a pool cleaner. He is depicted now as an exterminator and a crude womanizer, whereas that is not so clear in the 1976 original.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Bad News Bears at the Internet Movie Database
- Review at Moviesforguys.com
- The music of the Bears
| Films directed by Richard Linklater |
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| It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books • Slacker • Dazed and Confused • Before Sunrise • subUrbia • The Newton Boys • Waking Life • Tape • School of Rock • Before Sunset • Bad News Bears • A Scanner Darkly • Fast Food Nation |
