Thursday 24 July 2008

Richard Linklater's re-make of the 1976 sports comedy stars Billy Bob Thornton as Morris Buttermaker, a bibulous, cheating ex-baseball player hired to coach the Bad News Bears, a team of no-hopers and misfits. But despite his unorthodox methods, Buttermaker's a good coach and gets his team to the championship game, where they face the Yankees, coached by unctuous parent Roy Bullock (Greg Kinnear).