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Released
2005 · FILM

Bad News Bears

A down‑on‑his‑luck minor league pitcher is forced to coach a ragtag Little League squad, and must rally the misfit Bears into a winning team before they’re crushed by the powerhouse Yankees.

“Baseball has rules. Meet the exceptions.”

Directed by
Richard Linklater
Written by
Bill Lancaster, Glenn Ficarra
Runtime
113 min
ComedySport
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Morris Buttermaker is a disillusioned minor league baseball player with a penchant for drinking and a tendency to act inappropriately. His lawyer, frustrated by his behavior, secures him a position managing a local Little League team. Buttermaker quickly becomes the leader of a disorganized group of mismatched players. Using unorthodox team-building methods and a unique coaching approach, he helps his underdog Bears team prepare to face their opponents, the Yankees.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sandra AdairShot by Rogier StoffersScored by Edward ShearmurDesigned by Bruce Curtis

Box Office

2005 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$34.3M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$34.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $32.9M — 96% of worldwide · International: $1.4M (4%)

Opening weekend: $11.4M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $17.0M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,183 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Bären sind losde

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