
“Baseball has rules. Meet the exceptions.”
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Release Date: 7/22/2005
Runtime: 113 minutes
Languages: Spanish, English
Director: Richard Linklater
Budget: $30.0M
Revenue: $34.3M
Companies: Media Talent Group, Detour Filmproduction, Paramount Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Kamurai
Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend. I'm not a fan of baseball on any level, but this is a surprisingly charming movie, and Billy Bob Thorton is great with inappropriate humor. After this watch, I'm thinking this is from where "Benchwarmers" might have been inspired. I think it's more of the "misfits working together" trope that gets me, and you see it in lots of kids sports movies: "Kicking & Screaming", "The Sandlot", "Little Giants", "Mighty Ducks". This rolls in a lot of adult humor as well, so while you might have to have a few talks with your kids (which you should have had before watching a movie that would unexpectedly prompt them), but I think it's a movie that the whole family could actually watch. It's not great, but it was fun.
Andre Gonzales
Good movie. Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best being an a-hole. More coaches need to be like this guy lol.
Liz Whitewood

Billy Bob Thornton
Morris Buttermaker

Greg Kinnear
Roy Bullock

Marcia Gay Harden
Liz Whitewood

Sammi Kane Kraft
Amanda Whurlitzer

Ridge Canipe
Toby Whitewood

Brandon Craggs
Mike Engelberg

Jeffrey Davies
Kelly Leak

Timmy Deters
Tanner Boyle

Carlos Estrada
Miguel Agilar

Emmanuel Estrada
Jose Agilar

Troy Gentile
Matthew Hooper

Kenneth 'K.C.' Harris
Ahmad Abdul Rahim
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