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Bad Santa

Bad Santa

  • 7:00PM, 12/11Wed, 12-11, 7:00PM
  • Free movies on the Enzian lawn!

    Wednesday Night Pitcher Shows are FREE and open to the public. Keep an eye on our Facebook for information about rescheduled shows due to weather. Free overflow parking is available at Park Maitland School and Peach Valley across the street. Outside food & beverage is not permitted.

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    Unrated Cut!

    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. The Coen brothers conceived the basic idea and served as executive producers, but it’s director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World) who brings his unique affinity for losers and outcasts to the twisted tale of Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed sexaholic safe-cracker who targets a different department store every holiday season, playing Santa while he cases the joint with his dwarf elf-partner Marcus (Tony Cox).

    With comedic support from Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, Cloris Leachman, and John Ritter in his final film, Thornton milks the lowbrow laughs with a slovenly lack of sentiment, warming Bad Santa’s pickled heart just enough to please a chubby misfit (Brett Kelly, hilariously deadpan) who may or may not be mentally challenged. As dry as an arid martini and blacker than morning-after coffee, Bad Santa is an instant cure for yuletide schmaltz, but if you think this appropriately R-rated comedy is suitable for kids, your parenting skills are no better than Willie’s.

    2003, 98 minutes, USA, Directed by Terry Zwigoff, Unrated

    • “A gloriously rude and gleefully offensive black comedy, Bad Santa isn't for everyone, but grinches will find it uproariously funny.”

      – Staff, ROTTEN TOMATOES
    • “An antidote to forced holiday cheer, this scabrously funny misanthropic comedy is not for the whole family.”

      – David Ansen, NEWSWEEK
    • “It's such an original that it could eventually become the No. 1 cult movie of 2003.”

      – Mike Clark, USA TODAY
    • “I didn't like this movie merely because it was weird and different; I liked it because it makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. And because it is funny.”

      – Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
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