, 1h42 Directed byMichael Ritchie OriginUSA GenresComedy ThemesSports films, Baseball films, Children's films ActorsWalter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Chris Barnes, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Vic Morrow, Ben Piazza Roles Ogilvie Rating72% Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), a former minor-league baseball player and an alcoholic who cleans swimming pools, is recruited by a city councilman and attorney who filed a lawsuit against a competitive Southern California Little League, which excluded the least athletically skilled children (including his son) from playing. To settle the lawsuit, the league agrees to add an additional team—the Bears—which is composed of the worst players.
, 1h25 Directed byWoody Allen OriginUSA GenresWar, Comedy, Historical ThemesPolitical films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films ActorsWoody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jessica Harper, Georges Adet, Olga Georges-Picot, James Tolkan Roles Young Boris Rating75% When Napoleon (James Tolkan) invades Austria during the Napoleonic Wars, Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army. Desperate and disappointed after hearing the news that Sonja (Diane Keaton), his cousin twice removed, is to wed a herring merchant, he inadvertently becomes a war hero. He returns and marries the recently widowed Sonja, who does not want to marry Boris, but promises him that she will when she thinks that he is about to be killed in a duel. Their marriage is filled with philosophical debates, and no money. Their life together is interrupted when Napoleon invades the Russian Empire. Boris wants to flee but his wife, angered that the invasion will interfere with their plans to start a family that year, conceives a plot to assassinate Napoleon at his headquarters in Moscow. Boris and Sonja debate the matter with some degree of philosophical double-talk, and Boris reluctantly goes along with it. They fail to kill Napoleon and Sonja escapes arrest while Boris is executed, despite being told by a vision that he will be pardoned.