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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 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 and Sammi Kraft.

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

Tagline: Baseball has rules. Meet the exceptions.

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 a daughter he had with 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.

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.

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Movies - Bad News Bears

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