Here Come the Tigers

87 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$250,000^[1]Box office$1 million^[2]

Here Come the Tigers is a 1978 American sports comedy film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.

Plot

"A wild team of misfits think that they can make it big. What's a coach to do with a chronic nose-picker, a flatulent fielder, an out of control pitcher, a juvenile delinquent and the prettiest girl in the state? Turn this bunch of losers into a winning team! When their new coach enlists an unusual new teammate, it's a whole new ballgame as they band together to win their first championship, determined to prove that losers can be winners, too."

Cast

• Richard Lincoln – Eddie Burke
• James Zvanut – Burt Honneger
• Samantha Grey – Bette Burke
• Manny Lieberman – Felix the Umpire
• William Caldwell – Kreeger
• Fred Lincoln – Aesop
• Xavier Rodrigo – Buster
• Sean Patrick Griffin – Art "The Fart" Bullfinch

Production

Cunningham said in Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2005) he believed that the film cost $250,000 to make, "if that. It could be much lower. It was guerrilla filmmaking. It was all kids from the little leagues; it was like being on a three-week field trip with a bunch of sixth-graders. It was good and bad, frustrating and exciting. I loved it."^[1]

Victor Miller, who wrote the film under the pseudonym Arch McCoy, said: "Those were the days when everybody said, 'What America needs is a good G-rated movie.' I guess Here Come the Tigers made its money back, but they lied about America wanting G-rated films."^[1]

Reception

Variety called it a ripoff of The Bad News Bears (1976), trying to cash in on the success of the original and its sequel, with dull direction and dreadful acting.^[3]

References

External links

• Here Come the Tigers at IMDb