The Bad News Bears

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 ...more

The first decade of the 21st century has been a fruitful time for director Richard Linklater. After regaining his artistic footing with the back-to-back releases of the animated philosophy class Waking Life and the claustrophobic drama Tape in the same year, he whipped up the biggest box-office hit of his career with the winning School of Rock. He followed that up with a film that displayed the full power of his aesthetic approach and deepened his already weighty themes, Before Sunset -- the ...more