For folks who loves both baseball and movies, it's incredibly sad that Hollywood's takes on our national pastime continually whiff with a frequency that makes Adam Dunn look like Joe Dimaggio. But 40 years ago today, a film was released that got everything beautifully, hilariously and even painfully right: The Bad News Bears. A tartly-scripted comic saga about a no-hope Little League team from L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, the film — directed by Michael Ritchie from an original screenplay written by Bill Lancaster — shocked and amused audiences with its unbridled...
- 4/7/2016
- Rollingstone.com
The Motion Picture Association of America must've been fast asleep back in 1976, when they handed "The Bad News Bears" a family-friendly PG rating. Okay, okay, the PG-13 rating wasn't around until 1984, but still. That movie is offensive with a capital O.
Just check out the blimey trailer for the thing, and you'll see what we mean.
At the 1:08 mark, Coach Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) ushers in little Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal) to help the terrible little league team suck slightly less, but Timmy Lupus (Quinn Smith) - who seems to be suffering some sort of Napoleon complex all film, frankly - doesn't like that idea; no sir. In response, the child clearly says the words, "Jews, sp*cs, n*ggers and now a girl?"
Yep. That happened. Thanks Reddit!
And we were basically like ...
Then, we realized Paramount Movies made this video available on their YouTube page in June, 2012, so...
Just check out the blimey trailer for the thing, and you'll see what we mean.
At the 1:08 mark, Coach Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) ushers in little Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal) to help the terrible little league team suck slightly less, but Timmy Lupus (Quinn Smith) - who seems to be suffering some sort of Napoleon complex all film, frankly - doesn't like that idea; no sir. In response, the child clearly says the words, "Jews, sp*cs, n*ggers and now a girl?"
Yep. That happened. Thanks Reddit!
And we were basically like ...
Then, we realized Paramount Movies made this video available on their YouTube page in June, 2012, so...
- 4/4/2013
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
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- 11/19/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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