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Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Mono Audio, Widescreen
The comic and poignant second-in-the-series of adventures with the pint-sized sandlot Bad News Bears ballplayers, The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training picks up the Bears' career a year after their infamous second-place finish in the North Valley League. Faced with a chance to play the Houston Toros for a shot at the Japanese champs, they devise a way to get Texas to play at the famed Astrodome. On their pilgrimage to Houston, the Bears gain a new coach; dump that coach; add a new pitcher who can't get his fastball over the plate; find another coach who shows him how it's done, and go on to a come-back victory with all eyes on Japan.
Editor's Note
Scripted by Paul Brickman (RISKY BUSINESS), this sequel to Michael Ritchie's 1976 hit begins with the Bears reigning supreme as the little league champions of California. Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley, BREAKING AWAY), the Bears' star player, travels with the team to the Houston Astrodome along with his estranged father (William Devane), who is now the team's coach. There, they must play a between-inning game against the local champs, the Houston Toros, for the chance to go to Japan and play the best that the East has to offer. The Bears returned to the screen once more in THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Subtitles: English |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 3/22/2005 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1977 | | Catalog ID: 089654 | | UPC: 00097360896541 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...There is apparently no stopping, or even slowing down, that team of pint-sized California baseball players....As American as Budweiser beer..." 08/20/1977 p.13 |
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