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Release Date
• USA: Nov 28, 2003
• UK: 5 Nov 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 22, 2004
• R2: 22 Jun 2004
Budget USD 18,000,000
Official Website:
Bad Santa Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for pervasive language, strong sexual content and some violence. (also director's cut)
Running Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Studio KL Line Productions, Triptych Pictures
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Other Titles
• Badder Santa
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Genre: Crime, Comedy, Black Comedy, Christmas, Thieves, Suspense, Murder, Deception, Racy, Scams And Cons, Detectives
Tagline: He doesn't care if you're naughty or nice.
Plot: Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, 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 big score every year – on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the mall, this Santa and his ingenious Elf – Willie’s midget partner-in crime Marcus (TONY COX) – crack the store safe and make off with their own holiday stash. But then comes Phoenix. Here Santa and his Elf find their annual heist endangered by a pesky store manager (JOHN RITTER), a savvy mall detective (BERNIE MAC), a sexy Santa fan (LAUREN GRAHAM) and an innocent but beleaguered 8 year-old misfit (BRETT KELLY) who decides to believe that Willie – as intoxicated, acid-tongued and felonious as he seems to be -- is the real Santa he’s been
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Bad Santa is fine holiday fare--if by holiday you mean a day for a mean-spirited Santa to take stuff from other people, cuss up a storm and drink 'til he pukes. But if you can't laugh at a guy like that on Christmas, when can you laugh at him?  --Leigh Johnson (Hollywood.com)
Will be different things to different people, so my suggestion is that viewers prepare themselves for a film about mean-spirited, dysfunctional people, which may not be what you are looking for in a holiday comedy. C+--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)
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Glenn Ficarra
Cats & Dogs, Bad News Bears, Cats & Dogs 2: Tinkles' Revenge | John Requa
Cats & Dogs, Cats & Dogs 2: Tinkles' Revenge, Jack Tucker, Trucker |
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 | Bernie Mac
Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle |
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 | Bryan Callen
Wirey Spindell, Fish Without a Bicycle, Fat Actress |
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Me, Myself & Irene, Beetle Juice, Willow | |
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| Despite surprising compromises to happy ending cliché, it remains a starkly effective and brutally funny comedy about finding one’s way when it seems most unlikely. 82/100 --Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
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