Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal
Much nastier and less charming than I remembered. Matthau's character is a real pig...pretty much on a par with most of the adults depicted.
The director, Michael Ritchie, made a specialty of skewering American middle-class 'culture' (eg Smile); here he focuses on the adult fixation with winning little league games. The trouble was that he exaggerated too much. This wasn't rooted in any semblance of real life - purely movie reality - and lost any real bite as a result. It came across as mean-spirited and stupid.
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