Die Bären sind los

Here's a film with a fairly simple goal: to give you Walter Matthau coaching kids. He plays an alcoholic ex-baseball pro who takes charge of a cellar-dwelling Little League team. It goes about as well as you might expect, if perhaps predictably.

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Michael Ritchie directed Die Bären sind los in 1976. See Michael Ritchie's full filmography, where to start with Michael Ritchie, or where to go after you've seen everything by Michael Ritchie.

Die Bären sind los was released in 1976 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.