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	Bad Santa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bad Santa is a 2003 film directed by Terry Zwigoff, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as the title character and Tony Cox (best known for Friday and Me, Myself and Irene) as his partner-in-crime.
		The movie attracted bad publicity before its release from critics who likened the movie to an "evil twin" of Miracle on 34th Street and chided The Walt Disney Company for allowing such a beloved figure as Santa Claus to be trashed by its Miramax subsidiary.
		The mainstream figures beloved by those chiding Miramax and Disney for Bad Santa are cited by many survivors of abuse as being most likely to abuse characters such as Therman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bad_Santa (427 words)

	Bad Santa (2003)
		Willie is the most reprobate example of Santa imaginable, showing up for work sloppy drunk, being incredibly rude to his little visitors, having sex with plus-size women in the store's dressing rooms, and serving in the Santa chair for so long that he pees his pants.
		When Santa finds his motel room being tossed by the cops, The Kid's house proves to be the perfect place to stay, with only his oblivious Grandma (Cloris Leachman) to watch over him.
		Bad Santa isn't for the weak of heart or faint of stomach, with its grotesque Santa and potty-mouth dialogue.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=138218&PID=10113811&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (877 words)

	"Bad Santa" - Salon
		An African-American dwarf cum elf with a bad attitude, a department-store St. Nick who pees in his costume, and more synonyms for copulation than you can shake a candy cane at: "Bad Santa" is almost symphonic in its crudeness.
		After 90-odd minutes of salacious gross-out jokes and unapologetically bad behavior, I left the theater feeling cleaner, more virtuous, and more filled with love for my fellow human beings than I did after that overcooked heartwarmer "Love Actually" (with its wearying catchphrase, borrowed from the Troggs, "Love is all around").
		Bad taste is better than no taste, as style empress Diana Vreeland said, and "Bad Santa" spreads it freely and honestly, like fertilizer.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/11/26/bad_santa/index.html (712 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Bad Santa
		Bad Santa is a work of profoundly skeptical vulgarity which refuses to kowtow to, if not works against established generic notions of the "Christmas film," but this refusal is so poorly versed, so shoddily constructed, that what lingers in the mind is the vulgarity itself rather than any well-articulated subversive intention.
		Bad Santa does indeed have a sentimental streak; presumably once the filmmakers have demonstrated their lack of belief in generic clichés, they feel that they can adopt the strategies of those very same clichés with impunity.
		Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=899 (358 words)

	Bad Santa
		Bad Santa has a lot of things going against it.
		There has been a lot of controversy about the portrayal, and how it may hurt children's images of Santa, but if you're a parent and are taking them to see this R rated movie, then you have other things to worry about.
		Most surprising is that Bad Santa was directed by Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Crumb), in what is probably his most mainstream effort yet.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/bad_santa.html (573 words)

	MOVIE - BAD SANTA - Review Rating $$$$$ (OUT OF 10)
		Bad Santa, in stark contrast to this year's other Holiday comedy Elf, is unable to sustain the potential humour of its premise from beginning to end.
		Bad Santa more closely resembles Intolerable Cruelty, another recent comedy that had only one mildly comedic note.
		All of the blame for Bad Santa's lack of appeal can't be placed on the weakness of the concept.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2003/11/30/movieBadSantaReviewRatingo.html (424 words)

	Floridian: Bad Santa
		BAD SANTA: Moviegoers won’t get warm fuzzies from Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Soke, a most unsavory Santa.
		Bad Santa is a chronically cruel comedy without a shred of decency or sensitivity.
		The dialogue in Bad Santa bubbles with bile without sympathy for anyone, not even the fat kid - Willie doesn't care what his name is. Profanity is used like punctuation.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/11/26/Floridian/Bad_Santa.shtml (581 words)

	Bad Santa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If indeed he was Santa, it would only be in the most ironic sense – the direct and diametric opposite of the meaning of Christmas.
		Bad Santa was fashioned in the anomalous imaginations of the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski).
		Bad Santa is a warped Christmas wonder – a bundle of misanthropic joy for all seasons.
	www.urbanoutlaw.com /opinion/2004/0926.html (619 words)

	Bad Santa: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Santa claus (also known as father christmas, saint nicholas, saint nick, kris kringle or simply santa) is the north american and british...
		Miracle on 34th street (also called the big heart) is a 1947 film which tells the story of a gentle old man, working as a santa claus at macys...
		Santa claus conquers the martians is a 1964 science fiction film that regularly appears on lists of the all-time worst movies ever made....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bad_santa.htm (1290 words)

	Review: Bad Santa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bad Santa's Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is the kind of guy who makes Scrooge look like a generous, mild mannered eccentric.
		Bad Santa is for anyone who has had enough of Christmas carols, artificial goodwill, and It's a Wonderful Life.
		Early in the film, we see Santa urinating in his suit, and the contempt in which he holds the kids is unsettling.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/bad_santa.html (692 words)

	eclecticism: Bad Santa
		I first heard about Bad Santa thanks to Pops about a week ago, and it immediately sounded like something that would be right up my alley.
		If you understand why "Kill Bill" is a good movie and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is not, and "Bad Santa" is a good movie and "The Cat in the Hat" is not, then you have freed yourself from the belief that a movie's quality is determined by its subject matter.
		Santa's Flight Exam: Santa Claus, like all pilots, gets regular visits from the Federal Aviation Administration, and it was shortly before Christmas when the FAA examiner arrived.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2003/11/bad_santa.html (528 words)

	BAD SANTA
		Bad Santa moves into the kid's house when security guy searches his motel dive.
		There's a number of people who badly need to believe that Santa is real, the kid and the barmaid, and luckily for them he kind of is real.
		The climax of the movie is when Bad Santa tries to deliver the pink elephant to the kid on Christmas Eve.
	www.greenlightscafe.com /badsanta.html (618 words)

	Bad Santa (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the story, using the ancient gag of the toxic Santa as a vehicle for their patented brand of misanthropy; Zwigoff and company wring some laughs out of it, though the tone is uniformly mean and vulgar.
		Bad Santa is a one-joke film; to his credit, Thornton embodies that joke with vicious, vaguely insane conviction.
		However, Bad Santa was a gem of a movie, it was funny from start to finish and actually had a story that contained the essence of what Christmas is all about despite the constant swearing and crudeness!!
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/badsanta (1502 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Bad Santa (2003)
		Seemingly made as a spite against all of the safe, cheerful, child-friendly Christmas movies released each year, "Bad Santa" is an unapologetically profane comedy that aims to shock with its decided bad taste.
		Written by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (2001's "Cats & Dogs"), "Bad Santa" is wildly offbeat in its tone and subject matter, but unexpectedly traditional in its moralistic tale of a good-hearted child who brings cheer (or, at the least, something vaguely resembling it) to a desperately lost soul.
		Seeing the drunk-off-his-ass Willie posing as Santa Claus and reacting in crude ways to the children on his lap never ceases to be priceless, nor does his explanation to Willie that he is in the dog house for sleeping with Mrs.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/b/03_badsanta.htm (694 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Bad Santa (xhtml)
		Santa gets drunk on the job, he's boinking customers in the Plus Sizes dressing room, and whether the children throw up on Santa or he throws up on them is a toss-up, no pun intended.
		"Bad Santa" is a demented, twisted, unreasonably funny work of comic kamikaze style, starring Billy Bob Thornton as Santa in a performance that's defiantly uncouth.
		Because it's in his interest to keep Bad Santa in the store, he doesn't report little incidents like the reindeer-kicking to the store manager, played by the late John Ritter.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031126/REVIEWS/311260302/1023 (924 words)

	Kikizo Movies: Reviews: Bad Santa
		Santa wears a good deodorant.' (Jenny Zink - To employees of Western Temporary Services, world's largest supplier of Santa Clauses, NY Times 21 Nov 84) Unfortunately the makers of Bad Santa must have mislaid this piece of advice when it came to drafting the movie's script.
		The most impressive thing about Bad Santa is that it doesn't resort to the Grinch routine where the bad guy ultimately sees the error of his ways and redeems himself.
		At the end of the day Bad Santa makes for plenty of laughs albeit in the face of festive humour and is sure to be compulsory Christmas viewing for me every year hereafter.
	movies.kikizo.com /reviews/cinema/bad_santa.asp (1278 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Bad Santa" movie review (2003) "Bad Santa" review, Terry Zwigoff, Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac
		In "Bad Santa," a feel-good moment is when Willie shows he cares by beating the daylights out of a teenage skateboarder who picks on the kid.
		What this role needed was an actress like Lili Taylor ("I Shot Andy Warhol," "High Fidelity") -- someone less twinkly who could sink her teeth into a bartender with the kind of basement-level self-esteem to believably latch on to this loser just to be latched on to anyone at all.
		Please consider yourself warned: "Bad Santa" is not a movie that will earn peels of laugher from anyone who holds the joys of the season sacred.
	splicedwire.com /03reviews/badsanta.html (646 words)

	Elf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Small wingless elves of British folklore also appear distinct thus Santa's Elves (of whom it should be noted are referred to as Gnomes also, by many in the UK rather than Elves) are called "tomte" in Swedish or "nisse" in Norwegian.
		What remained of the belief in elves in German folklore was that they were mischievous pranksters that could cause disease to cattle and people, and bring bad dreams to sleepers.
		Tony Cox as Marcus in the movie Bad Santa, who is working as an elf assisting Santa Claus at a supermarket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elf (4300 words)

	Bad Santa Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Santa takes the boy home and, once there, robs his sole caretaker, his senile grandmother (Cloris Leachman).
		Bad Santa takes a few potshots at the season's commercialism, but it's not necessarily the main theme of the movie as it often is in films with a cynical take on Christmas.
		Screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are equally bold in their writing style; the script is well written and the dialogue for the most part lively and amusing, if a little hard on virgin ears--there's a lot of profanity in this movie, but hey, some people like that shit.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1733937 (507 words)

	Bad Santa - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		And again: Bad Santa is a film not meant for lower double digit youth either.
		While in costume, "Santa" is not above smoking, drinking or filling the private regions of oversized and under appreciated ugly women with his pitiful christmas sausage, so to speak.
		Sue also ignores the beard and the booze breath and the filthy personal habits because she's has this Santa fantasy for years and doing it with The Hat is something that, uh, this is an R rated movie, you figure it out.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive03/badsanta.html (774 words)

	The Last Samurai and Bad Santa. By David Edelstein
		Bad Santa is basically one joke, over and over: Billy Bob's Willie is disgusting.
		To feel the true joy of Bad Santa you have to step outside the narrative and put yourself in the heads of Thornton and the director, Terry Zwigoff (who, on the basis of Crumb [1994], has a connoisseur's appreciation for big butts), and the executive producers, Joel and Ethan Coen.
		Bad Santa is a gonzo parody of a Christmas redemption movie, but it also hits all the Christmas redemption movie beats, which means you also get that warm fuzzy feeling while Lauren Graham is chanting, "Fuck me, Santa.
	www.slate.com /id/2091997 (1269 words)

	Movie Review: Bad Santa
		Despite my bad experiences lately with over-hyped movies, I and a friend were determined to go, and so we did.
		The direction and editing were good, and there was little extraneous footage to be found (Bad Santa is a short movie - just an hour and a half).
		The language is bad and virtually constant; there are some overtly sexual scenes (though they're not explicit by any means); and there are a few moments of violence.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2003/bad-santa.html (544 words)

	BAD SANTA (R) - Guest Commentary: ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR23NA1
		However, one of our emailers expressed grave concerns about the potential of Bad Santa to fool even the most discerning moviegoer with the name "Santa" attached to the title during the Christmas season and almost pleaded that at least some warning about it be posted for our visitors.
		He said: "BAD SANTA might easily be mistaken for a traditional holiday movie, suitable for children, despite the MPAA rating.
		I went to see Bad Santa a couple of weeks ago, and here is a content report.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/badsanta.htm (1955 words)

	Ink 19 :: Bad Santa
		In Bad Santa, Thornton plays Willie Stokes, a chain-smoking, booze-guzzling department-store Santa with a penchant for plus-sized women and anal sex -- hardly a stretch for the versatile actor.
		While Santa endures the weight of child after child on his grimy lap, Marcus cases the joint; on Christmas eve, he uses his small stature to hide in the store until after hours.
		Bad Santa is the funniest, foulest film that executive producers Joel and Ethan Coen have ever been associated with -- and that's saying a lot.
	www.ink19.com /issues/november2003/screenReviews/badSanta.html (820 words)

	Santa Claus Review - Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Santa, "la-la"-ing his way through "Silent Night," sits down at his pipe organ, which comes equipped with a sign that reads "Toyland." Toyland is the place where Santa's toys are made, not by elves, but rather by children from around the world, presumably kidnapped and forced to toil in Santa's sweatshop.
		Santa procedes to his gym, which consists of one of those old reducing machines where you put a strap across your belly and it shakes you.
		Lupita hears Santa mentioned, and her mother explains who he is. Lupita asks if Santa will bring her a doll, and her tearful mother replies that it couldn't hurt to ask him for one.
	www.jabootu.com /acolytes/brandiweed/santa.htm (7252 words)

	Amazon.com: Bad Santa (2003) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Instantly qualifying as a perennial cult favorite, Bad Santa is as nasty as it wants to be, and there's something to be said for comedy without compromise.
		Rather than being 'sorry' for Ritter that his last film was 'Bad Santa'; I believe that making this film with his old friend (from 'Hearts Afire', the 80's TV series) Billy Bob Thornton, in their first film together since 'Sling Blade', was probably a tremendous source of fun and pleasure for Ritter.
		For those of us who can't quite get into the Christmas spirit, "Bad Santa" is a massive preemptive strike against all of the insufferable sentimentality we're going to be subjected to a few months from now.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001I55MY?v=glance (2717 words)

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