Themes: Coaches and Players, Fish Out of Water, Culture Clash
Main Cast: Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hatsune Ishihara, George Wyner
Release Year: 1978
Country: US
Run Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Filling the shoes occupied by Walter Matthau in the Bad News Bears and William Devane in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Tony Curtis takes on the role of the teams newest coach in this, the third installment in the series. Jackie Earle Haley returns as Kelly Leak, the Bears' star player, as the team ventures to the other side of the world to face off against the best little league team in Japan. While there, the Bears find their way into mischief and Kelly finds love with a local girl. Though this was the last entry in the film series a television series followed a year later. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Lonny Chapman - Louis the Gambler; Chris Barnes; Mathew Douglas Anton - E.R.W. Tillyard III; Erin Blunt - Ahmad Rahim; George Gonzales - Miguel Aguilar; Brett Marx - Jimmy Feldman; David Pollock - Rudy Stein; David Stambaugh - Toby Whitewood; Jeffrey Louis Starr - Mike Engleberg; Scoody Thornton - Mustapha Rahim; Dick Button - Himself; Hugh Gillin - Pennywall; Gene Lebell - Mean Bones' Manager; Dick McGarvin - Network Man #3; Regis Philbin - Harry Hahm; James Staley - Network Man #4; Don Watters - Network Man #1; Michael Yama - Usher; Jerry Ziesmer - Eddie of Network; Tak Kubota - Referee; Jerry Maren - Page Boy; Robert Sorrells - Locke
Credit
Gene S. Cantamessa - Animator, Tommy Welsh - Costume Designer, Jerry Ziesmer - First Assistant Director, John Berry - Director, Dennis Virkler - Editor, Richard A. Harris - Editor, Paul Chihara - Composer (Music Score), Walter Scott Herndon - Production Designer, Kozo Okazaki - Cinematographer, Gene Polito - Cinematographer, Terry Carr - Producer, Michael Ritchie - Producer, Bill Lancaster - Screenwriter
