Bad News Bears [Blu-ray]

Director: Richard Linklater Richard Linklater

Overview

A washed-up ballplayer is put in charge of a pack of kids scarcely more mature than himself in this remake of the 1976 comedy hit. Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is a former major league baseball player whose career and life has hit the skids thanks to his overwhelming fondness for booze and women. Needing a break, his lawyer (Marcia Gay Harden) arranges for Buttermaker to take on coaching responsibilities for the Bears, a Little League baseball team comprised of a handful of hapless losers. As Buttermaker tries to groom his young charges into a winning team, he also gives them a glimpse of his hard-living lifestyle while they gear up to take on perennial rivals the Yankees and their arrogant Coach Bullock (Greg Kinnear. The 2005 version of The Bad News Bears was written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who previously scripted another Billy Bob Thornton vehicle, Bad Santa.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/25/2022
UPC:	0191329212011
Original Release:	2005
Source:	Paramount
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	5,728

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Billy Bob Thornton	Morris Buttermaker
Greg Kinnear	Roy Bullock
Marcia Gay Harden	Liz Whitewood
Sammi Kane Kraft	Amanda Whurlitzer
Ridge Canipe	Toby Whitewood
Brandon Craggs	Mike Engelberg
Jeffrey Davies	Kelly Leak
Timmy Deters	Tanner Boyle
Carlos Estrada	Miguel Agilar,Jose Agilar
Troy Gentile	Matthew Hooper
Kenneth 'K.C.' Harris	Ahmad Abdul Rahim
Aman Johal	Prem Lahiri
Tyler Patrick Jones	Timothy Lupus
Jeffrey Tedmori	Garo Daragebrigadian
Carter Jenkins	Joey Bullock
Seth Adkins	Jimmy
Chase Winton	Ms. Cleveland
Arabella Holzbog	Shari Bullock
Nectar Rose	Paradise
Lisa Arturo	Peaches
Elizabeth Carter	Chandalier,Chandalier
Monique Cooper	Lolita
Candace Kita	China
Kate Luyben	Daisy
Shamron Moore	Cherry Pie
Jeffrey Hutchinson	Baseball Official
Sonya Eddy	Saleslady
Karen Gordon	Saleslady
Maura Vincent	Shopper
Jennifer Carta	Softball Player Suzy
Dennis LaValle	Deaver Dad
Robert Peters	Yankee Dad
Kevin R. Kelly	Yankee Dad
Shannon O'Hurley	All American Mom
Hunter Cole	All American Boy
Wil Myer	All American Boy
Pancho Moler	Kevin
Jack Acampora	Yankee Player
Bretton Bowman	Yankee Player
Ryan Cruz	Yankee Player
Nick Lovullo	Yankee Player
Richard Martinez	Yankee Player
Payton Milone	Yankee Player
Ernesto Junior Prado	Yankee Player
Kirby James Shaw	Yankee Player
Cody Thompson	Yankee Player
Hayden Tsutsui	Yankee Player
Matthew Walker	Yankee Player
Darin Rossi	Umpire
Gary A. Rodriquez	Umpire
Scott Adsit	Umpire
Kevin Makely	Umpire
Robert Matthew Wagner	Umpire
Ken Medlock	Umpire
Josh Goldfield	Umpire
Mike Paciorek	Umpire
Jeff Conrad	State Band Member
Sam Farrar	State Band Member
Alex Greenwald	State Band Member
Darren Robinson	State Band Member
Tom Miller	Athletic's Coach
Jeff Davies	Kelly Leak
Kenneth Harris	Ahmad Abdul Rahim
Ed Shearmur	Composer,Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Linklater

Bill Lancaster

Glenn Ficarra

John Requa

Richard Linklater	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Bill Lancaster	Screenwriter
Geyer Kosinski	Producer
Glenn Ficarra	Screenwriter
John Requa	Screenwriter
Marcus Viscidi	Producer,Executive Producer
Bruce Heller	Producer
Bob Baron	Sound Effects
Jeff Barnes	Special Effects
Mark Agostino	Sound Effects
Robert Althoff	Sound Effects
David Bach	Sound Effects
Steve Bartkowicz	Sound Effects
Joseph Middleton	Casting
Edward Tise	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Why field another Bad News Bears squad? The 1976 original was the South Park of its day; and three decades later, the bracing shock of profanity-spewing kids has pretty much worn off. Also, Bears begat any number of increasingly rote movies in which a team of misfits overcomes its underdog status and achieves redemption. But with the erstwhile Bad Santa on board and a promising team of young rookies, director Richard Linklater's remake more than stands on its own. Billy Bob Thornton wears the role of Morris (formerly "The Blade") Buttermaker like a custom-fit glove. His Buttermaker is a besotted exterminator whose brief stint (two-thirds of an inning) with the Seattle Mariners was his sole moment of baseball glory; the hapless team he's recruited to coach, which includes one wheelchair player, was nearly booted from the local Little League organization. Countering the notion that such kids need a role model, Buttermaker passes out drunk during practice and takes the players to Hooters for team meals (a cheering section of Hooters girls is a running gag). His un-P.C. coaching style includes such comments as, "You guys swing like Helen Keller at a piñata party." But with the addition of two players -- Buttermaker's estranged daughter, Amanda (Sammi Kraft), an ace pitcher, and a rocket-armed, sweet-swinging local delinquent (Jeff Davies) -- the Bears come together as a team. Where relatively free-flowing racial and cultural epithets provided the shock factor in 1976, Bad News Bears earns its PG-13 with gratuitously crude and rude talk. In that regard, it's no Bad Santa. This film does have Thornton, though, and he's terrific here; few contemporary actors can go from fall-down-drunk in one scene to the "We can do better" speech and make it work. At least, in a movie.