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Bad Santa is a 2003 American comedy, crime, and Christmas film directed by Terry Zwigoff. The screenplay was written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, with music composed by David Kitay. The cast includes Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, and Tony Cox. Production was handled by Dimension Films and Columbia Pictures, with Bob Weinstein and the Coen brothers serving as producers. The film was filmed in Long Beach and set in the Miami metropolitan area, Miami, and Arizona.
The movie has a runtime of 91 or 92 minutes and was released on November 26, 2003, and November 18, 2004. It was distributed by Dimension Films and Netflix, with a distribution format of video on demand. The production had a budget of 23,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 76,488,889 or 76,500,000. The film’s main subject is alcoholism. It was followed by Bad Santa 2.
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Film · TMDB
6.6You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
Cast
- Billy Bob Thornton as Willie
- Tony Cox as Marcus
- Lauren Graham as Sue
- Brett Kelly as The Kid
- Lauren Tom as Lois
- John Ritter as Bob Chipeska
Themes
- elves
- holiday
- department store
- christmas party
- safe
- drink
- little people
- christmas
- hilarious
- xmas
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Terry Zwigoff
- Written by
- Glenn Ficarra John Requa
- Story by
- Ethan and Joel Coen (uncredited)
- Produced by
- John Cameron Sarah Aubrey Bob Weinstein
- Starring
- Billy Bob Thornton Tony Cox Lauren Graham Brett Kelly Lauren Tom John Ritter Bernie Mac
- Cinematography
- Jamie Anderson
- Edited by
- Robert Hoffman
- Music by
- David Kitay
- Production companies
- Dimension Films Triptych Pictures
- Distributed by
- Miramax Films (Worldwide) Columbia Pictures (though Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International ; select international territories)
- Release date
- November 26, 2003 ( 2003-11-26 )
- Running time
- 92 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $23 million
- Box office
- $76.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Bad Santa is a 2003 American Christmas black comedy crime film directed by Terry Zwigoff, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and starring Billy Bob Thornton in the title role, with a supporting cast of Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kelly, Lauren Tom, John Ritter, and Bernie Mac. It was Ritter's last live-action film appearance before his death on September 11, 2003. The film was dedicated to his memory. The Coen brothers are credited as executive producers. The film was released in North America on November 26, 2003, and was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It received positive reviews and was a commercial success.
An unrated version was released on DVD on March 5, 2004, and on Blu-ray on November 20, 2007, as Bad(der) Santa. A director's cut DVD was released in November 2006; it features Zwigoff's cut of the film (including an audio commentary with him and the film's editor), which is three minutes shorter than the theatrical cut and ten minutes shorter than the unrated version, the content removed being largely from Willie's time in Miami. A sequel, Bad Santa 2, was released on November 23, 2016, and failed to match the critical and commercial success of the original.
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