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The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels (The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978) and a short-lived television series, none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. Also notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Carmen.
Buttermaker (Matthau), an alcoholic ex-professional baseball player, becomes the coach of a cellar-dwelling Little League team. By recruiting a couple of unlikely prospects—one of them (O'Neal) being the daughter of his sometime girlfriend—and sheer inspiration, he turns the team into a winner.
The film was notable in its time for the amount of vulgarity (including profanity and ethnic slurs) placed into the mouths of the various child-actors who played the principal roles. However, all of the questionable dialogue was used for comic effect. There is also a now-scandalous scene where an inebriated Buttermaker drunkenly drives around a carful of kids—without seatbelts—in his open-top convertible.
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