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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Bad Santa is a 2003 film directed by Terry Zwigoff, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as the title character and Tony Cox as his partner-in-crime. Bernie Mac, John Ritter (in his final live-action film), Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Ethan Phillips, Brett Kelly and Cloris Leachman are also featured. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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Terry Zwigoff (born 1948 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. ...
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Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ...
Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ...
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Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. ...
Joseph Anthony Tony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an African-American actor from United States. ...
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Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...
Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress and voice actress. ...
Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ...
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The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ...
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Terry Zwigoff (born 1948 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. ...
Joel and Ethan Coen, known as The Coen Brothers, are Oscar-winning American filmmakers. ...
Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. ...
Joseph Anthony Tony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an African-American actor from United States. ...
Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ...
This article is about the American actor. ...
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...
Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress and voice actress. ...
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Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. ...
The unrated version of the film was released on DVD in 2004 as Badder Santa. A director's cut DVD has been released in November 2006. It features director Terry Zwigoff's cut of the film (including an audio commentary with him and the film's editor), but is three minutes shorter than the theatrical cut and ten minutes shorter than the unrated version. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ...
Production
Bad Santa was Terry Zwigoff's fourth film and was by far his most mainstream, following the very limited releases of Crumb and Ghost World. The original screenplay was written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who had previously been known for the 2001 family film "Cats & Dogs". They would later go on to, alongside Bill Lancaster (the original screenwriter although has since died but is still credited with), writing the screenplay for the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears, also starring Billy Bob Thornton. Prior to filming, producers Ethan and Joel Coen and director Terry Zwigoff did re-writes on the script, though they went uncredited by WGA rules. Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground comic artist R. Crumb and his family. ...
Ghost World is a 2001 film by Terry Zwigoff, based on a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, also titled Ghost World. ...
Cats & Dogs is a 2001 comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman about the relationships between cats and dogs. ...
William Bill Henry Lancaster was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 17, 1947. ...
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Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. ...
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The casting directors experienced a bit of poor timing, as several different actors interested in the role of Willie were unable to participate due to scheduling conflicts. Among them were Jack Nicholson and Bill Murray, who were already filming Something's Gotta Give and Lost in Translation, respectively. Coincidentally, Nicholson, Murray and Thornton all received Golden Globe nominations that same year for their roles, with Murray winning the award. Nicholson as Wilbur Force in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). ...
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Plot The film begins in a bar on a December night in Milwaukee, where the viewer is introduced to Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a bitter, lonely man and alcoholic. Willie works the holiday seasons as a mall Santa along with his dwarf friend Marcus (Tony Cox), who works as the Santa elf. Every Christmas Eve, the duo disables the security alarm after the mall closes and they then rob the mall safe. Afterwards, Marcus lives with his wife Lois while Willie goes to Miami and wastes all his money on booze. This article is about Milwaukee in Wisconsin. ...
Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. ...
Joseph Anthony Tony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an African-American actor from United States. ...
At the new mall they plan to steal from, Willie's alcoholic rants arouse the suspicion of mall manager Bob Chipeska (John Ritter), who tells security chief Gin (Bernie Mac) to investigate. Willie meets bartender Sue (Lauren Graham), with whom he begins a relationship. He later meets a pudgy pre-teen whom he nicknames the Kid (Brett Kelly) during their visit in the mall. When he leaves the bar and is confronted by a hostile Hindustani man (Ajay Naidu), the Kid stops the man from raping Willie. A lonely, unpopular boy, the Kid lives with his senile grandmother (Cloris Leachman); his mother is dead and his father is in prison for embezzlement. After taking the Kid home to his mansion, Willie breaks into the Kid's father's safe and borrows his father's BMW, spending the money on more booze. This article is about the American actor. ...
Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ...
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Bad Santa. ...
Ajay Naidu Ajay Naidu (born 12 February 1972 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American actor of Indian ancestry. ...
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. ...
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Chipeska finds Willie having anal sex with an overweight woman in a changing room in the mall and tries to fire him; however, Willie and Marcus threaten to sue Chipeska for discrimination against African-American "little people" like Marcus if they are fired, and Chipeska does not fire them. Marcus is irritated by Willie's risky behavior, including his new car, his alcoholism, and flirting with every customer. When Gin breaks into Willie's motel room posing as a police officer, Willie takes up residence with the Kid, which proves to be quite a convenience. During his time spent with the Kid, Willie starts to show small signs of kindness, offering advice when the Kid is beaten by bullies and playing checkers with the Kid. Roman men having anal sex. ...
Willie has a series of incidents in the mall in-between his time spent with the Kid and Sue. During one of his lunch breaks, he yells at a mother and son after Marcus insults him. Marcus is continually disgusted by how unreliable Willie is. Gin discovers the history of Marcus and Willie and he demands half of the money and merchandise they plan to steal, creating further friction between Willie and Marcus. Willie goes to the mall drunk the next day and destroys a reindeer display in a drunken rage, shocking the customers. Marcus and Gin try to cover it up but get into an argument; the next day, Willie tries to commit suicide, giving the Kid a letter to give to the police when they would come to collect his corpse, explaining the mall robbery. He is motivated to live when he sees how the bullies have blackened the Kid's eye. He beats up the lead bully (Max Van Ville) as his friends run away and then gives the Kid a very unsuccessful boxing lesson. Max Van Ville (born July 15, 1987) is an American actor who mostly appears in small roles in movies and television shows. ...
The Kid gives Willie a Christmas present in advance: a wooden pickle he bloodied when he cut himself carving it. He then gets a low-grade report card (all C's, with the exception of one B), hoping to make Willie happy (from this Willie learns the Kid's name: Thurman Merman). Thurman asks for a pink stuffed elephant this year, since he hadn't received any presents for the past two years.
That night, Marcus and Lois kill Gin when he refuses to take less than half the money. On Christmas Eve, Sue helps Willie and Thurman decorate their house for Christmas. Willie leaves to rob the mall with Marcus. After cracking the safe, Willie takes a stuffed elephant for Thurman. Marcus appears with a gun, and reveals that he is going to kill Willie because he is becoming more unreliable every year. However, the police arrive, having been tipped off by Willie's letter which Thurman gave to them. Willie flees and speeds to Thurman's house in order to give him his present. He arrives at the house and is shot eight times by the police in front of the whole neighborhood.
Afterwards, Thurman gets his present and it is revealed that Willie has survived and will avoid prison time because of the letter he gave the police, and because the Phoenix "police department shooting an unarmed Santa Claus in front of children was more fucked up than Rodney King." Marcus and Lois are both arrested and in prison. Willie, Sue and Thurman will form a kind of family upon Willie's release from the hospital as Sue is legally given guardianship of Thurman. Furthermore, in an ironic twist of events, Willie is to be made a sensitivity trainer for the police department, so that "incidences such as [Willie getting shot] will never again embarrass the force".
In the final scene, Thurman wears a shirt that Willie sent him which says on the back, "Shit happens when you party naked" together with his original present. When Thurman goes out for a bike ride, the head bully appears and starts to taunt Thurman, but Thurman kicks him in the crotch and rides off giving the bully the middle finger.
Cast Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. ...
Joseph Anthony Tony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an African-American actor from United States. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Bad Santa. ...
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...
Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress and voice actress. ...
Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ...
This article is about the American actor. ...
Others Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1973)[1] is an American actress, voice actor, writer and comedian. ...
Tom McGowan (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor best known for his recurring roles on Frasier, as KACL station manager Kenny Daley; Everybody Loves Raymond, as Rays friend Bernie; and on The War at Home, as Dave Golds friend Joe. ...
Max Van Ville (born July 15, 1987) is an American actor who mostly appears in small roles in movies and television shows. ...
Ryan James Pinkston (born February 8, 1988) is an American actor and model. ...
Dylan Cash (born November 30, 1994) is an award-winning child actor currently under contract portraying Michael Corinthos on ABCs daytime drama General Hospital. ...
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. ...
Reception The movie attracted bad publicity before its release from critics who likened the movie to an "evil twin" of Miracle on 34th Street and chided The Walt Disney Company for allowing such a beloved figure as Santa Claus to be trashed by its Miramax subsidiary. [1] Miracle on 34th Street (also titled The Big Heart in the UK) is a 1947 film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton, and starring Maureen OHara, John Payne, and Edmund Gwenn. ...
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Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company. ...
Ultimately, the film maintains a rating of 7.2 at the Internet Movie Database, an aggregate "Certified Fresh" rating of 75% at Rotten Tomatoes, and a positive 3 1/2 stars out of four by critic Roger Ebert. The film was also a box office success grossing over $60 million at the US box office. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...
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Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
This was John Ritter's last live-action role—he died two months before the release—and it is dedicated in his memory. This article is about the American actor. ...
External links - Bad Santa at the Internet Movie Database
- GreenCine Daily interview with Zwigoff about the "director's cut"
- Billy Bob Thornton Audio Interview (US) at MrMedia.com
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