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Bad Santa
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788854293
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0788854291
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 2003
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Editorial Review:
Instantly qualifying as a perennial cult favorite, Bad Santa is as nasty as it wants to be, and there's something to be said for comedy without compromise. The Coen brothers conceived the basic idea and served as executive producers, but it's director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World) who brings his unique affinity for losers and outcasts to the twisted tale of Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed sexaholic safe-cracker who targets a different department store every holiday season, playing Santa while he cases the joint with his dwarf elf-partner Marcus (Tony Cox). With comedic support from Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Cloris Leachman, and John Ritter in his final film, Thornton milks the lowbrow laughs with a slovenly lack of sentiment, warming Bad Santa's pickled heart just enough to please a chubby misfit (Brett Kelly, hilariously deadpan) who may or may not be mentally challenged. As dry as an arid martini and blacker than morning-after coffee, Bad Santa is an instant cure for yuletide schmaltz, and if you think this appropriately R-rated comedy is suitable for kids, your parenting skills are no better than Willie's. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pretty Funny, But Not The Good Version
Bad Santa is a pretty good movie, but in watching Bad Santa and Badder Santa, I found that Bad Santa is not worth your money. BUY BADDER SANTA!! It is much more funny. This movie is not for kids anyway so you might as well buy the funnier version. :)
Rating:  - Bad Santa? No, Bad VERSION.
This just goes to prove that artists often are not the best judge of their art, as Terry Zwigoff, in his Director's Cut here, completely RUINS one of the finest comedies I've ever seen, a hilarious antidote for those who hate the holdays, a vulgar comedy with an angry spirit and an ultimately uplifting experience, has been transformed here (hard to believe this was the intended version) into a completely miserable film.
Gone is the voice-over in the opening bar scene; gone are many, many funny ... Read More
Rating: - An awsome movie thats "Bad"
I liked this movie when I'd seen the original, but to have the director's cut and unrated version on one disc is great.
Rating:  - Hubby had to Have
I guess if I was my hubby I would have given the movie 5 stars but I just couldn't, probably because it's one we definately have to hide from the kids. But hay it made him happy.
Rating:  - Very Funny.
I couldn't stop laughing at one of the things John Ritter says in the movie. Great Christmas movie. (very adult though)
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