Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham
Willie T. Stokes is a washed-up, wise-cracking Department Store Santa who can't help but be more naughty than nice. Underneath his ill-fitting red suit, Willie is actually a safecracker who makes one ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 22, 2004
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January 3, 2009"Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first."
"Bad Santa" is almost a perfect holiday movie. If not the best, it's at least the funniest. By far.
Billy Bob Thornton plays a constantly drunken, vile character called Willie. He is miserable with his life, b...( read more) -
December 13, 2008Hilarious christmas feel bad movie with a black heart which thaws believably.
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December 12, 2008not the usual fairytale christmas crap which is why i enjoyed it. only billy bob thornton could play this life sucked out of loser and it works. before fairytale lovers go looking somewhere else it has got a moral to the story but it's subtle and honest rather than over the top a...( read more)
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December 11, 2008Billy Bob Thornton plays a foul-mouthed drunken safe cracker who once a year gets a job as a department store Santa in order to rob the place. When I watched this I was thinking I'd be getting a deconstruction of seasonal sentimentality and a welcome antidote to the usual sacchar...( read more)
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November 13, 2009SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GALERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND ITS A BIT WEIRD ASWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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November 1, 2009the language is discusting rude. it does not make you feel christmasy at all
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October 29, 2009This was the funniest Christmas movie Ive ever seen.I laughed from beginning to end
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October 23, 2009From Sling Blade to Armageddon, to Bad Santa....Billy Bob Thornton is da man
Critic Reviews
May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
December 5, 2003
David Edelstein, Slate
Thornton's performance is -- there's no other word -- beautiful. full review
November 29, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
I found the escalating disreputability of Bad Santa completely cathartic. full review
November 26, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I didn't like this movie merely because it was weird and different; I liked it because it makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. And because it is funny. full review
November 26, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Mac and Graham have little to do, sadly, but this may be the bravest acting Thornton has ever done, so complete is his refusal to play to our sympathies. full review
November 25, 2003
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
There simply aren't enough laughs in this Christmas comedy -- it's more like a stocking stuffed with lumps of coal. full review
November 24, 2003
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Sure to become a holiday perennial for those with a macabre sense of humor, or forever laminated on Santa's naughty list. full review
November 20, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
It could become a Christmas perennial for Scrooges of all ages. full review
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September 6, 2007This movie is one of my fav.!! It was soooo funny & kept me rolling all through!! Love it!!
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