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Hollywood favorites Billy Bob Thornton (THE ALAMO), Bernie Mac (MR. 3000), and John Ritter (TV's 8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER) star in the year's most-talked-about comedy hit, BAD SANTA. You'd better watch out -- Santa Claus Willie T. Stokes (Thornton) 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 wise-cracking store detective (Mac), a sexy bartender (Lauren Graham -- TV's GILMORE GIRLS), and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

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"'Bad Santa' is the foulest holiday movie I've ever seen - and the funniest". -- Chicago Tribune/Mark Caro

"...extremely funny -- at times sidesplittingly so." -- Hollywood Reporter/Michael Rechtshaffen

"Badder Santa is unquestionably the version of Bad Santa that you need to own..." -- DVDTalk.com/Jason Bovberg

"I liked it because it makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. And because it is funny." -- Ebert & Roeper/Roger Ebert

"The movie is -- how can I say this? -- funny as hell." -- Washington Post/Stephen Hunter

Product details

Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.84 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Terry Zwigoff
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Anamorphic, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 31 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 22, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, John Ritter, Tony Cox
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Miramax Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001I55MO
Writers ‏ : ‎ Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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An all time classic anti-Christmas movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2022

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If you want to watch an anti-Christmas movie on Christmas than Bad Santa should be at the top of your list.

The movie is expertly cast with Billy Bob Thornton as a foul mouthed drunk Santa who cusses at kids. Tony Cox is his partner in crime. Brett Kelly plays an innocent kid who takes in Thornton, and Bernie Mac as a crooked mall security chief. The story is about a heist that goes wrong. More importantly it will make you laugh out loud again and again such as when Thornton, Cox and Kelly go boxing and all hit each other in the nuts. It’s a classic.

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Bad Santa

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2022

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Billy Bob Thornton, super funny, but really irreverent and rude. If you're easily offended, not for you. If you have a pretty open funny bone, you'll laugh. Of course, that's my subjective opinion. Having said all of this, I never hesitate to update my reviews should new info seem useful. All of my reviews reflect my honest, personal experience with the reviewed item - your experience may be different. I am not influenced by any outside source. I receive/accept NO free products or discounts that are not available to all shoppers- ever. For some reason our shopper ranks are no longer visible - so, to give you a little more info about me, I am a top 50 reviewer (#30 the highest rank achieved). Those numbers used to fluctuate over time - up and down but I noticed that they stopped updating regularly - perhaps to phase them out. I've been doing reviews for over 25 years with Amazon - nearly 6,000 reviews posted, viewed over 50,000 times, and over 24,000 likes.

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StcksNStones

What's better than Bad Santa?!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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IF you like foul language, derogatory, dark humor and Billy Bob... Bad Santa is the BEST Christmas movie! It's NOT for everybody especially if you like the Hallmark style of Christmas!

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amazing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2022

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I will for sure be getting it again. I love it, is everything I wanted. it's also the perfect Christmas for either you or your family.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2022

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Love this CLASSIC Christmas movie!

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The vest Christmas movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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The best Christmas movie. We watch it every year.

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aztec7777

Funny!!!!!!!!!!! Not a family film but one of my favorite holiday films.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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Watch it, you’ll like it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2022

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I watched this because it has no morals. Just straight up raw over the top disgusting profanity, vulgarity and comedy gold. If you're upright, hypocritical and too religious, lol don't watch it because the whole point is to cringe and laugh and be totally tasteless while having drinks in a smoke filled room with a keg of beer, hot wings, assorted knick knacks pizzas, and potato chips. Break out the little tiny Christmas tree sit it next to the TV, dim the lights and enjoy.

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TB_family

Love him and loathe him

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2013

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Amazon have a habit of dumping all reviews into all film formats. So please note that this review is for the Blu-Ray version and so quality and features may vary.

The picture quality of this film is exactly what I would expect from Blu-Ray, sharp lines, good definition, clear and colourful. I can't comment too much on audio quality as this was playing through standard TV speakers, but what I heard was fine.

This is a very funny film, but if you are likely to be offended by the overuse of bad language, course sexual humour, a Santa that hates children and makes his feelings known to them and glamourising drunken behaviour, then you may want to steer clear of this film.

For those not familiar with the film the story centres around 2 burglars who, every year, scope the security of a department store in the run up to Christmas and then when the safe is full, they break into it and steal the money.

Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is a safe cracker and gets employment in a stores Christmas grotto as Santa. His side kick and brains behind the operations is Marcus (Tony Cox). He dresses up as an elf and due to his size is able to traverse the ventilation ducts and bypass security. It is a brilliant plan that pays dividends every year, but there is one major flaw; Willie is a drunk who is filled with hatred for everything and everyone.

In Bad Santa they pick up a job where the store manager Bob Chipeska (John Ritter) is a socially awkward boss who relies upon store detective Gin (Bernie Mac) to sort out the day to day problems that drunk Willie is causing for the store. Unfortunately, Gin is a bit corrupt and so Willie is able to get away with swearing and shouting at children, have sex with larger ladies in the dressing rooms, turn up so drunk he urinates himself and falls asleep on the floor.

In the build up to this burglary Willie cons his way into a 10 year old Thurman's (Brett Kelly) home who is looked after by his confused grandmother. Slowly a relationship builds between the 2 helped along with a bartender, Sue (Lauren Graham) who has a thing for Santa after meeting him in a bar.

The film is filled with unrepeatable, yet memorable moments. A timeless kind of humour that has the film being replayed year after year. When you get a bit fed up of all the softer Santa stories of love, joy and happiness and you feel like you need an escape into the darker side of Santa, then pop this into the player.

The blooper reel had me in hysterics especially the scenes between the now both deceased John Ritter and Bernie Mac. The scene with Gin making Bob Chipeska feel uncomfortable spelling out what Willie has been getting up to was in itself a very funny moment in the film, but the outtakes of this scene had me rolling on the floor.

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Mr. J. J. Brett

Stay with it, you'll be rewarded in the end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 12, 2012

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This film starts out looking like it will be tough going. The setting is hot and unfestive. The language is harsh and the two main characters are anything but sympathetic. Billy Bob Thornton's portrayal of Willie, a drunken, self loathing, safe breaking department store Santa makes for uncomfortable viewing. But as the film progresses you start to warm to him (very slowly). What makes this possible is the change wrought in him by his relationships with weird fat kid Thurman Merman played by Brett Kelly and Santa fetishist barmaid Sue, played by Lauren Graham.

The comedy will not be to everyone's taste as much of it is of the 'gross out' variety. Despite that, the film is more thoughtful than its critics give it credit for. The main body of the movie contains scenes of Willie being drunk, swearing at kids, wetting himself and generally being foul and disgusting. His partner in crime, Marcus, played by Tony Cox, is a black dwarf which generates considerable job security for them. Every time Willie's antics threaten to get them both sacked Marcus only has to point out that he ticks two minority boxes and the store manager backs off from disciplining either of them.

Willie's verbal sparring with Marcus shows genuine affection between them underscored with an element of loathing. Each really wants to be rid of the other but they need each other too much. Locked in their love/hate relationship they bicker and insult each other in a way that is funny but also thought provoking. The swearing may put some people off though.

There is a sub plot involving the store detective played by Bernie Mac who realises what our dynamic duo are up to. He blackmails them for a share of the profits prompting Marcus to take extreme action to deal with him. There is also a thread involving the repressed and timid store manager played by John Ritter who realises that something is up with our heroes but lacks the means to deal with them. This leads to some humorously uncomfortable conversations between Ritter and Mac when Ritter seeks his help.

More discomfort ensues when Willie tries to teach Thurman self defence by taking him to a gym to spar with Marcus. This turns into a three way painfest as Thurman struggles with the concept of inflicting physical violence, Marcus gets fed up and Willie loses patience with Marcus.

The final quarter of the movie is when the humanity starts to come through as Willie starts to realise that Thurman and Sue really care about him and that he can make more of his life if he chooses to do so. All through the film he has had this deep seated desire to change things and he finally has a motivating factor to do so.

Give this movie a chance. Watch it all the way through with an open mind after the kids have gone to bed. You may not like it but you may be surprised.

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John Tierney

The perfect antidote to sickly-sweet Christmas films

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 4, 2013

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This is a very funny film and if you are sick of anodyne, sugary Christmas fare, you can do no better for this as a handover cure. Billy Bob Thornton excels as the eponymous Bad Santa who is bad, bad, Bad. With his short-in-stature counterpart, he drunkenly takes advantage of shops during Christmas by using the Santa job to facilitate inside job robberies. Falling in with a barmaid with a thing for Bad Santas, he ends up being responsible for an overweight kid who believes he really is Santa. The film is coarse, uncouth and extremely funny. The language is very earthy and the humour is fast and base, but clever.

Whether Bad Santa can ultimately be redeemed by the woman who loves him and the child who looks up to him is something we are left to guess at for the whole film. Whether it can have its cake and successfully eat it is something you will determine if you watch it and I wholeheartedly recommend you do.

I saw this on TV two years running and panicked this year when I didn't think it was on and bought it (new for under a fiver from Amazon - bargain). It was on anyway but I don't care as this is now an annual treat. I read that Billy Bob Thornton admitted he really was drunk during filming, which only adds to the fun. Highly recommended.

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Milt M. R. Ingarfield

Bad Santa (Blu-ray version)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 25, 2012

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This 2003 production from the director Terry Zwigoff who in 2001 had directed "Ghost World" comes this irreverent take on the festive holidays, Billy Bob Thornton is perfectly cast as the title character who somehow makes this wholly unsavoury figure likeable in a dark and twisted way and his little helper played by Tony Cox is the perfect comic foil, this is the late John Ritter's last film and is dedicated to him as he passed away in September and this movie opened in November 2003 in the U.S.

Comparing the Blu-ray which was released 2008 in the U.K. to the 2005 version on DVD is like night and day the red of the Santa suit jumps out of the screen the soundtrack of this film is re-born with greater clarity in all the audio departments, the extras included are in standard definition they are the same as the DVD from 2005 this includes the documentary "Not your typical Christmas movie" a blooper reel and deleted scenes, this Blu-ray is encoded using Mpeg-4 in full 1080p resolution in the original 1.85 aspect ratio and the audio track is in English, French, Italian and Spanish 5.1 Dolby True HD and there are a range of subtitles including English for the hard of hearing, Arabic, French, Hindi, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish this is all on a Region Free 50GB disc a perfect cure for when you feel overwhelmed by the Festive Holidays'.

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