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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Craig Gillespie |
| Stars: |
Seann William Scott |
| Actors: |
Amy Poehler |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Marriage · High School Experiences |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
794043113352 |
| Release Date: |
2007 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 28min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 28min Release Company: Warner Home Video (January 15, 2008) UPC: 794043106620 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Josh Gilbert |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2007, p.82, Anna Wood): "MR. WOODCOCK has an excellent premise and some funny one-liners....Susan Sarandon plays the mother, Beverly, just right." |
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With BAD SANTA, Billy Bob Thornton proved he was willing to go all the way--no holds barred--in portraying unsympathetic, foulmouthed jerks. Here he brings that same skill to bear as the title character, a sadistic junior high school gym teacher who is every uncoordinated or overweight student's worst nightmare. Best-selling author of self-help books, Farley (Sean William Scott) thinks the tortures he's suffered at the hands of Woodcock are just the stuff of traumatic childhood memory (such as being told, "You are a disgrace to fat, gelatinous kids the world over"), until he goes home to Nebraska to pick up an award and learns his widowed mother (Susan Sarandon) is in love with the man who made him miserable all those years ago. Farley recruits his unkempt buddy (Ethan Suplee) in a series of backfiring schemes to wreak some belated vengeance and expose Woodcock before the nuptials are sealed. There's plenty of nasty repartee between Scott and Thornton and some funny-disturbing bits from side characters, ... |
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