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Bears Are Us

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This baseball film is both a spot-on 1970s period piece and a spectacularly irreverent movie for kids whose parents let them curse at will.

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Tags: Billy Bob Thornton, Richard Linklater, Bad News Bears, Glenn Ficarra and Bill Lancaster, Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden, ohn Requa, screenplahy

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