If you loved A Simple Wish, try The Bad News Bears
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Michael Ritchie, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Simple Wish, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Bad News Bears is
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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