"The parents push their kids to win at all costs, and the kids are often bratty and mean." I think the whole message of the movie is that this sort of behavior isn't acceptable. The movie is one big long message of gender, racial and class equality. Yes, that message is cloaked in foul language and out-of-date depictions of smoking and drinking, but it's a fairly sophisticated message for tweens and teens. It shows kids from different economic and ethnic backgrounds overcoming their initial perception of those differences and uniting as a team. It shows Mattheau as a flawed, but meaningful, father figure to kids on the team whose own fathers don't accept them for who they are. It shows Tatum O'Neil as the (second) best player--a girl on an all-boys team. Your kids are smarter than you think (and they already know all of the bad words anyway). I wouldn't hesitate to show this to my 11 year olds with some proper guidance. Heck, we watched it in the movie theater in the 70s with no guidance at all and understood both the humor and the ultimate message. This is the quintessential movie where people trying to enforce today's standards of political correctness miss the forest (message of equality and tolerance) for the trees (because people are smoking, drinking and swearing).