Bleacher Bums

TV Movie
2001
R
1h 55m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

487

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Comedy Drama Sport

A day in the life of a group of gambling buddies, as they sit in on their beloved baseball team game.A day in the life of a group of gambling buddies, as they sit in on their beloved baseball team game.A day in the life of a group of gambling buddies, as they sit in on their beloved baseball team game.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

487

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Saul Rubinek: as Reid, the Chicago Bruins manager

Goofs
Scorekeeper Billy talks to Joey about seeing former players in the field in his imagination and mentions Cap Anson, Three-Finger Brown, Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance. Taking into account that in this version of the play, the Cubs are called the Bruins, so things might have been different, none of the named players played with the Cubs in Wrigley with the exception of Tinker, but not as part of the Tinker-to-Evers-to Chance combination Billy mentions.

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Version of Bleacher Bums (1979)

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Featured review

6/10

Yes it was a bad movie but HEY...I was in it!

I was actually an extra in this movie and didn't get to see the finished product until much later. The movie was not great, that's true but after some research I found that this movie is based on a play and I think performing this show on stage may give it the endearing quality it lacks on screen. I spent 2 weeks in 2001 working on this movie. The direction was very good considering the seeming lack of budget that was present at the time. It was actually filmed at Varsity Stadium in Toronto and it was a blistering summer. I walked away as an extra earning my 8 dollars an hour and at the ame time feeling a proud and a new respect for all the extras in the movie industry.