THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)
Special Features: 50th Anniversary
Walter Matthau is Morris Buttermaker, a drunken pool cleaner and onetime minor-league prospect recruited to coach a Los Angeles Little League team of hapless misfits. Buttermaker adds two ringers: his ex-girlfriend’s baseball-loving daughter, Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal), and the athletically gifted but precociously criminal Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley). The players learn to set their differences aside, pool their talents and rally around an us-against-the-world mentality to challenge the league’s top team, the Yankees. Gloriously un-PC but surprisingly progressive beneath its crude exterior, THE BAD NEWS BEARS is an only-in-the-1970s version of a kids’ movie, described by Roger Ebert as “an unblinking, scathing look at competition in American society.” DIR Michael Ritchie; SCR Bill Lancaster; PROD Stanley R. Jaffe. U.S., 1976, color, 102 min. RATED PG
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, July 03, 2026
Genre: Sports, comedy
