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    Bad Words (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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    • 1 Рольф КентI'm the Winner 1:12
    • 2 Рольф КентArriving At the Golden Quill 0:37
    • 3 Рольф КентB.R.A.V.O., Mr. Trilby 1:46
    • 4 Рольф КентPoolside 2:15
    • 5 Рольф КентChai Has a Minibar 1:09
    • 6 Рольф КентThe Morning After 1:08
    • 7 Рольф КентA Glare From Teegan 0:37
    • 8 Рольф КентThe Panties Scam 3:16
    • 9 Рольф КентDiner and Toy Car 0:59
    • 10 Рольф КентIt's Not a Sundae 0:49
    • 11 Рольф КентChai Gets an Education 1:15
    • 12 Рольф КентTeegan Rigs the Competition 0:59
    • 13 Рольф КентThese Are Not Light Pants / Womanhood Panic 2:49
    • 14 Рольф КентA Nasty Long Word 1:18
    • 15 Рольф КентMontage of Defeat and Victory 1:15
    • 16 Рольф КентMeeting Bowman 2:46
    • 17 Рольф КентBurning Todd 2:06
    • 18 Рольф КентChai's Revenge 1:02
    • 19 Рольф КентThe Least a Son Can Expect 1:19
    • 20 Рольф КентBust Your Nut 2:02
    • 21 Рольф КентAngry Mother 1:47
    • 22 Рольф КентDown To the Last Three 2:01
    • 23 Рольф КентTrying To Lose 1:56
    • 24 Рольф КентDisqualified 2:34
    • 25 Рольф КентParting Letter To Bowman 2:40

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    " The end justifies the mean."
    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 29 min
    Budget $10 000 000
    Premiere: World $7 804 337 November 1, 2013
    USA $7 779 614
    Other countries $24 723
    Box Office – Budget – $2 195 663
    Premiere: USA $7 779 614 March 14, 2014
    first day $37 862
    theaters 1074
    rollout 293 days
    Digital: World June 24, 2014
    Parental Advisory Profanity, Sex & Nudity, ...
    • Profanity

      plenty

    • Sex & Nudity

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Violence & Gore

      few

    Production Companies Aggregate FilmsDarko EntertainmentDigital Image Associates...Lasky Productions
    Also Known As
    Juegos de palabras United States

    Description

    A spelling bee loser sets out to exact revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win as an adult.

    Сast and Crew

    Production

    Andrew Dodge's screenplay for Bad Words first received attention after its inclusion on the 2011 Black List, an annual survey of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The script was sent to actor Jason Bateman, who had asked his agent to pursue directorial work, explaining that being able to direct films was "really the only reason I've been acting for the last 20 years of this career".

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    Critique: 31

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    Chicago Reader March 27, 2014

    Trashy, ribald laughs in the Bad Santa vein, this marks Bateman’s directorial debut; it’s not much to look at, but at least he has the...

    Directed by Bateman in his first solo effort and written by Andrew Dodge, the film is an irreverant jape with its fair share of standout comic perf...

    Entertainment Weekly March 12, 2014

    Bateman deserves props for sustaining Bad Words as a little balancing act between sulfurously funny hatred and humanity.

    New York Times March 13, 2014

    The performances are funny, appealing and, in the case of Allison Janney, as a spelling bee official, wonderful.

    The Dissolve March 14, 2014

    [Jason Bateman’s] an automaton, a joke machine-and as long as he stays that way, Bad Words offers shock for shock’s sake.

    Newark Star-Ledger March 14, 2014

    "Bad Words" serves, at least, as proof that Bateman can do a variety of parts, and direct a smart economical comedy – and if Ho...

    Orange County Register March 13, 2014

    A movie that promises to skewer sentimentality about children and the parents who live their lives through them ends up as an arrested adolescent&r...

    New York Post March 13, 2014

    A young Jack Nicholson might have pulled this off, but Jason Bateman is not Jack Nicholson. Pity the actor who thinks he’s edgier than he act...

    Rolling Stone March 13, 2014

    In this profanely funny comedy of bad manners and hurts that won’t heal, Bateman shows the same skill as a filmmaker that he does as an...

    Observer March 12, 2014

    For his directorial debut, Mr. Bateman acquits himself nicely, promising even better things to come.

    Globe and Mail March 28, 2014

    The laughs in this film are all mean-spirited or just frat-boy gross.

    New York Daily News March 13, 2014

    For his directorial debut, Bateman returns to his bad-boy beginnings. And the results are predictably amusing.

    Slant Magazine March 8, 2014

    The meager comeuppance and hasty notes of sweetness that end the film feel pre-approved rather than organically realized.

    Film.com September 13, 2013

    It gets a little repetitive, but it when it works, it works.

    ReelViews March 20, 2014

    The film’s problem is that, despite obvious aspirations to be more than just a profane joke factory, it never fulfills its dramatic ambi...

    Los Angeles Times March 13, 2014

    Sarcastic, sanctimonious, salacious, sly, slight and surprisingly sweet, the black comedy of "Bad Words," starring and directed by Jason Bateman, i...

    Toronto Star March 27, 2014

    Almost unrelenting in its takedown both of an American institution and the country’s obsession with victories big and small, Bad Words is mor...

    Arizona Republic March 20, 2014

    What makes the comedy work is that Bateman doesn’t relent. Guy is, simply, a loathsome person.

    Variety September 9, 2013

    Jason Bateman makes an auspicious directing debut with this exuberantly foul-mouthed and mean-spirited comedy.

    Austin Chronicle March 20, 2014

    In Bad Words, Jason Bateman demonstrates that he is in full control of his onscreen identity: playing characters who express themselves with humoro...

    USA Today March 13, 2014

    It’s tough to summon sufficiently negative language to describe the unfunny, desperate mess that is Bad Words.

    indieWire March 13, 2014

    Jason Bateman has described his directorial debut, "Bad Words," as "'Bad Santa' with spelling bees," a comparison so evident in the material that i...

    AV Club March 13, 2014

    Even when Bad Words is bad in the wrong way, it tends to be bad in the right way, too.

    Hollywood Reporter September 15, 2013

    A scouringly funny tale of ill-conceived revenge.

    Detroit News March 21, 2014

    This is twisted, funny stuff.

    Boston Globe March 20, 2014

    It’s nasty enough, but it isn’t so much funny as it is pathological.

    NPR March 13, 2014

    Bad Words announces its high concept immediately and then goes about the business of telling its story without wasting a moment.

    Vulture March 14, 2014

    The film is at its best when it’s hovering aimlessly without any apparent purpose in the world of this embittered, misanthropic little man.

    SFGATE March 20, 2014

    At heart, Bad Words is a nice little concoction about a fellow walking around with a deep emotional wound, who heals it, not by confronting th...

    RogerEbert.com March 14, 2014

    Once we understand what’s driving Guy, the revelation is airless: It feels like too little, too late. Now we’re supposed to care about...

    deadspin.com March 12, 2014

    The problem with "Bad Words" isn’t that it’s mean. It’s that it’s not really mean but tries so hard to think it is.

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    A somewhat strange, but not without its charm, tragicomedy about words. Bateman is one in two persons. The Indian guy is cool. The hero’s motives are eventually revealed, but they are not very compelling. Not a bad short film.

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