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BAD SANTA:
THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
Monday, April 20
2:30 8:00
U.S., 2003
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Bernie Mac, Brett Kelly, John Ritter, Cloris Leachman
Approx. 88 mins.
“Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is a shopping-mall Santa with a difference: a cynical, safe-cracking alcoholic with a penchant for sex and a wholly unconcealed dislike of kids. Indeed, he only does the job as a cover for the felonies he perpetrates with Marcus (Tony Cox), his criminal-mastermind elf. But then Willie has two not-quite-life-changing encounters: one with self-confessed Santa-groupie Sue (Lauren Graham); the other with parentless eight-year-old Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), whose innocence verges on idiocy and who happens to live in a mansion that’d make a great home for Willie. Wonderfully tasteless, gloriously non-PC, admirably bilious; humourless souls should steer clear.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Reviews
“Best of all, it plugs into—and electrifies—the mostly unacknowledged grimness that lies just beneath our holiday cheer.”
– TIME Magazine
“A sweet, cathartic reminder that sometimes the season is neither holly nor jolly.”
– A.V. Club
