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The Benchwarmers is a 2006 American buddy comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan. The movie features a cast including Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, and Jon Lovitz. Allen Covert and Nick Swardson wrote the screenplay, while Adam Sandler served as producer. The production companies involved were Revolution Studios and Happy Madison Productions. The film focuses on the sport of baseball.
Dennis Dugan directed the film, with Thomas E. Ackerman as the director of photography and Waddy Wachtel as the composer. The runtime is 85 minutes. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix, including via video on demand. The film received a PG-13 rating. Critical reception included a 13% review score, a 3.2/10 rating, and a 25/100 score. It has been noted for seven nominations total.
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Film · TMDB
5.9A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Cast
- Rob Schneider as Gus
- David Spade as Richie
- Jon Heder as Clark
- Molly Sims as Liz
- Jon Lovitz as Mel
- Amaury Nolasco as Carlos
Themes
- sports
- baseball
- pizza
- paperboy
- homerun
- video store
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Ratings
IMDb
5.6/10
57,779 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
13%
Metacritic
25/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Sport
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 7 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- baseball
- Director
- Dennis Dugan
- Screenwriter
- Nick Swardson
- Composer
- Waddy Wachtel
- Production company
- Happy Madison Productions
- Cinematographer
- Thomas E. Ackerman
- Duration
- 80
- FilmAffinity ID
- 737900
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Sport
- baseball
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.com/movies/thebenchwarmers
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- publication date
- 2007-01-01
- title
- The Benchwarmers
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 25/100
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