Bad Santa

2003

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama

86
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 78% · 220 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 154812 154.8K

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Plot summary

A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.


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John Ritter as Bob Chipeska
Cloris Leachman as Grandma
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by UniqueParticle 10 / 10

My personal favorite Christmas movie and my 1,200 review!

The ultimate hilarious adult treat with glorious lines throughout! I've laughed so hard from Bad Santa that my face has turned red it's quite enticing. I'm shocked this isn't in the top Christmas lists from what I've seen barely anyone mentioned it. So much madness packed in raunchiness, foul, great Christmas music, and relentlessly enjoyable probably seen nearly 40 times. I so love this movie and it's amazing that Billy Bob Thornton really got drunk for the role.

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 9 / 10

This will become mandatory holiday viewing for this viewer.

"Bad Santa" is the perfect antidote for those people tired of the usual run of feel good and family friendly holiday fare. It's got one hell of a funny and extremely profane script, and presents a man who just may be one of the worst Santas ever.

He's Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), a miserable alcoholic with a bad case of self hatred who lets himself get dragged into one department store robbery after another by his conniving "elf" partner, Marcus (Tony Cox). Things finally take a different turn for Willie when he encounters Thurman (Brett Kelly), a portly, bullied young boy who lives a very isolated existence; he's got a dad in prison and a grandmother (an uncredited Cloris Leachman) who's not all there. The kids' sincerity and need for friendship set off something inside Willie, who after all this time has found something to live for.

Thornton is wonderful in this role, one of the best of his career, and the other roles are equally as well cast. Cox is a hoot, as is Lauren Tom as the getaway driver, Lauren Graham as the sexy bartender who lusts after Santa Claus (!), and late talents Bernie Mac, as a security chief who learns the truth about Willie & Marcus, and John Ritter (to whom the film is dedicated) who's good as the uptight store manager. Director Terry Zwigoff ("Crumb", "Ghost World") makes the most of the blackly comic screenplay by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It's a delight because it's so fresh and unpredictable in terms of what outrageousness the filmmakers will sling at us.

Plus, there's just something irresistible about the time honoured premise of giving a pathetic character his much needed chance at redemption. (The film really isn't too far removed from "A Christmas Carol" in this regard.) As much as we laugh at Willie, we're too uncomfortably aware of how much his life stinks, and how well he knows it. As a result, Zwigoff maintains a really fine balancing act between the wilder moments and the more human ones.

Provided the viewer is more than ready to handle all of the obscenities, and a story that gets dark at times, they should have a high old time with "Bad Santa".

Nine out of 10.

Reviewed by Tweekums 8 / 10

Crude but hilarious Christmas entertainment

Willie, a grumpy drunk, and Marcus, a dwarf, work together as Santa and his Christmas elf in shopping malls. This is not for the love of the Christmas season but because they plan to rob the mall when the safe is full of Christmas takings. Each year they change names and cities. This year they are in Phoenix. Willie is drinking more than ever, swearing in front of the children and having sex in the changing rooms... Marcus thinks all of this is unprofessional as it nearly gets them fired before they can rob the mall. The manager asks the head of security to investigate. While on duty Willie is visited by a child named Thurman who seems to actually think he is Santa... which proves handy when Willie needs a place to stay! Before the day of the robbery Willie gets together with Sue, an attractive barmaid with a Santa fetish and helps Thurman deal with some bullies.

If you are after a Christmas movie for all of the family this is most definitely not it! Our protagonist is not only a criminal but also a total degenerate whose behaviour is almost always inappropriate. If you are not easily offended there are laughs to be had from start to finish. Most of these come from Billy Bob Thornton's eponymous 'Bad Santa'; he does a fantastic job making the character sleazy but without making him unlikeable. Tony Cox is solid as Marcus; Brett Kelly is great as Thurman, a character I initially feared would be annoying, and Lauren Graham was likeable as Sue. The story moves at a good pace with none of the scenes being dragged on too long. There are one or two surprises before the end but nothing that felt unlikely. Overall I'd definitely recommend this as an antidote to all those saccharine Christmas moves.

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