THE BAD NEWS BEARS: TRIPLE PLAY COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1976
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Triple Play Action; ; The Bad News Bears; A major surprise as one of 1976's top-grossing films, The Bad News Bears is a movie about children that is refreshing, utterly believable, and quite cleverly funny. Walter Matthau is at his absolute best as the grumbling, beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher who gets roped into coaching a band of half-pint misfits somewhat loosely called a team. With this bunch in uniform, it's impossible to get caught up in the suburban competitive spirit that drives other adults to extremes of parental discipline. So, instead, the Bears have a good time.; ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training; The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training is the comic and poignant second-in-the-series of adventures with the pint-sized sandlot ballplayers initiated with the smash success, The Bad News Bears. The picture picks up the Bears' career a year after their infamous second-place finish in the North Valley League. Faced with a chance to play the Houston Toros for a shot at the Japanese champs, they devise a way to get to Texas to play at the famed Astrodome. On their pilgrimage to Houston, the Bears gain a new coach; dump that coach; add a new pitcher who can't get his fastball over the plate; find another coach who shows him how it's done, and go on to a come-back victory with all eyes on Japan.; ; The Bad News Bears Go To Japan; Caught in a clash of cultures and ready to wreak more havoc on Japan than Godzilla, the Bad News Bears are back for their third outing, following the enormously successful Bad News Bears and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. This time the Bears have been spirited off to Tokyo by Marvin Lazar (Tony Curtis), a slick con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team, and the resulting comic chaos is hilarious.
• Cast: Walter Matthau, Chris Barnes, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt, Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Joyce Van Patten, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone, George Gonzales, Alfred Lutter III, Brett Marx, David Pollock, Quinn Smith, David Stambaugh, Brandon Cruz, Timothy Blake, Bill Sorrells, Shari Summers, Joe Brooks, George Wyner, David Lazarus, Charles Matthau, Maurice Marks, Howard Culver, Michael Ritchie
• Director: Michael Ritchie
• Runtime: 4:52
• Media Format: movie