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Released
1976 · FILM

The Bad News Bears

A washed‑up former pitcher takes a ragtag Little League squad under his wing, determined to turn them into champions while battling his own demons and the ruthless world of youth baseball.

“The coach is waiting for his next beer. The pitcher is waiting for her first bra. The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities.”

Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Written by
Bill Lancaster
Runtime
102 min
ComedyDramaFamily
Streaming on
  • Hoopla

Synopsis

An aging, down-on-his-luck former minor league player takes on the challenge of coaching a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Richard A HarrisShot by John A AlonzoScored by Jerry FieldingDesigned by Polly Platt

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× 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

$42.3M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$42.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Bären sind losde
  • La Chouette équipefr
  • Che botte se incontri gli \"Orsi\"it

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