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.
07-22-2005
1h 53m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Richard Linklater
Production:
Media Talent Group, Detour Filmproduction, Paramount Pictures
Revenue:
$34,252,847
Budget:
$30,000,000
Key Crew
Screenplay:
Bill Lancaster
Screenplay:
Glenn Ficarra
Screenplay:
John Requa
Stunts:
Allan Graf
Stunts:
Zack Duhame
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in several major film roles following Sling Blade 's success, including 1998's Armageddon and A Simple Plan. During the late 1990s, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums and was the singer of a blues rock band.
Gregory Buck Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an American actor and television personality, who first rose to stardom as the first host of E!'s Talk Soup. He has appeared in more than 45 motion pictures. Kinnear was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets.
He has starred in several TV shows including Rake, House of Cards, Shining Vale, and Black Bird.
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
She began her acting career appearing in television programs throughout the 1980s. In 1986, she appeared in her first film role, with her breakthrough coming in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing.
Her next notable film credits include The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), and Space Cowboys (2000). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She had a supporting role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film Mystic River (2003).
She appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist, based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using computer-generated imagery. In Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel.
In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Janina Krzyżanowska in the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
She reunited with her former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.
She played Christian Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd.
Sammi Kane Kraft was born on April 2, 1992 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Bad News Bears (2005). She died on October 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Known For
Ridge Canipe
Ridge Canipe (born July 13, 1994) is an American teen actor. Ridge is best known for his roles in Walk the Line (as young Johnny Cash), in a thriller Baby Blues in 2008 and the 2005 version of Bad News Bears. He also co-starred in the 231st presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Pictures of Hollis Woods" which aired on CBS in December 2007. Along with Walk the Line co-star Hailey Anne Nelson, Canipe endorsed a vegan cookbook for children by PETA.
He has also appeared in a couple of episodes of Desperate Housewives, as Danny Farrell, the paper boy of Wisteria Lane. Other appearances in television shows include guest roles in Angel, Cold Case, CSI and Drake & Josh. He has also appeared as young Dean Winchester in the CW TV series Supernatural.
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Troy Gentile (born Troy Francis Farshi ; October 27, 1993) is an American actor best known for his roles as Mark in Hotel for Dogs (2009) and Barry Goldberg on the comedy series The Goldbergs (2013–2023), and for playing young versions of Jack Black‘s characters in Nacho Libre and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (both 2006).
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Seth Elijah Adkins (born October 30, 1989) is an American actor. He made his debut in the mid-1990s as a child artiste in the TV shows Small Talk and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch in 1996 and the films ...First Do No Harm and Titanic in 1997. He later made a successful transition to an adult performer. One of his most recent roles was in Matt Reeves' Let Me In (2010).
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Nectar Amber Rose (1974) is an American actress.
Nectar Rose is her real name. She began acting at an early age, at the insistence of her mother. Her first (small) appearance in a feature film was a stripper in the blockbuster Independence Day in 1996. She is best known for the science fiction movie Serenity in 2005, where she played android robot Lenore. For her first scene in this film she had two days of shooting stuck in the same position. In 2006, she played Eve in the ambiguous thriller Roman, for which she earned positive reviews.
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With numerous movies, TV and theater roles under her belt, Monique has ventured out, from in front of the camera to behind it, to direct and produce her first short film. Studying broadcast journalism and acting in the theater from a young age, Monique has gathered a great working knowledge of acting and brings a culpable stage presence with her to whatever she does.
She’s an American actress and is best known for her witty and charming roles in popular TV sitcom and daytime soaps. She has appeared in feature films including, Bad News Bears starring Billy Bob Thornton, Starsky and Hutch and Candy Stripers. Monique has also made her way onto the small screen in shows like According to Jim and Still Standing, starring Mark Addy.
Most recently, Monique has set her sights on directing feature films and has finished her directorial debut with the short film, 9pm. She is currently developing a web series and busy promoting her latest projects including photography and screenwriting.
Robert Peters was born on July 20, 1961 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Robert is an actor and director, known for Ocean's Eleven (2001), Lincoln (2012) and In the Line of Fire (1993).
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Scott Adsit (born November 26, 1965, height 6' 2" (1,88 m)) is an American actor, writer and improvisational comedian. He is currently known for co-starring as Pete Hornberger in the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and for his work in the Adult Swim stop-motion animation programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.
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