The Bad News Bears in 16mm

(1976, 102m) dir Michael Ritchie w/Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Jackie Earle Haley. When a civil action lawsuit requires a super competitive California little league organization to include a team of poor kids, has-been alcoholic minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker (Matthau) is brought in to coach the hopeless Bears. The Bad News Bears is the template every kids sports movie would copy and remains to this day the greatest sports movie ever made (says Trylon Programmer John Moret). Presented for its 50th Anniversary on Opening Day of Major League Baseball with era-appropriate cartoons and commercials. 7:00 $10