Morris Buttermaker, a former pro baseball player, was ejected from the game for attacking an umpire and now works as an exterminator. More interested in boozing and broads than baseball, Buttermaker is lured back into the game by Liz Whitewood, an attorney whose class action suit has forced the Little League to accept all players, regardless of their abilities. As the new coach of the Bears, the most losing team in Little League history, Buttermaker has his work cut out for him. Initially, he's only in it for the paycheck, but he and his inept players have a transformative effect on one another that is wholly unexpected, and completely remarkable.
cast
Billy Bob Thornton as Buttermaker
quote
[from trailer]
Buttermaker: You guys swing like Hellen Keller at a piñata party.
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton) is a former Major League Baseball player (he pitched 2/3rds of an inning and had a career ERA of 36.00) who drinks heavily and has a goofy looking soul patch. Marcia Gay Harden is a lawyer who orchestrated some sort of lawsuit to force the town little league to allow a team of inept brats to play. She bribes Buttermaker to coach, and it becomes his job to overcome the clichéd, remade odds and try to lead these foul-mouthed runts to the championship. A bunch of annoying, cussing kids ensues.