Rating: PG13
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release: 07/22/2005(USA)
Release Date: 12/13/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Alcohol Consumption, Scatological Humor
Distributor/Studio: Paramount

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.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Billy Bob Thornton - Morris Buttermaker
Greg Kinnear - Ray Bullock
Marcia Gay Harden - Liz Whitewood

Production:
Richard Linklater - Director
Richard Linklater J. Geyer Kosinski Geyer Kosinski - Producer
Bruce Heller - Co Producer
Ed Shearmur - Composer
Sandra Adair - Editor
Bill Lancaster Richard Linklater John Requa Glenn Ficarra - Screen Writer
David S. Lazan - Art Director
Adam Ellison - Associate Producer
Brad Marks - Associate Producer
Joseph Middleton - Casting
Rogier Stoffers - Cinematographer
Karen Patch - Costume Designer
Marcus Viscidi - Executive Producer
Vince Palmo - First Assistant Director
Randall Poster - Musical Direction/Supervision
Bruce Curtis - Production Designer
Brana Michelle Rosenfeld - Set Decorator
Edward Tise - Sound/Sound Designer
Webster Whinery - Stunts Coordinator
Beth Sterner - Supervising Sound Editor
Erik Henry - Visual Effects Supervisor
Sara Greene - Associate Producer

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