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Bad Words deterioration a American black comedy film directed by Jason Bateman and written by Andrew Dodge. Marking Bateman's feature film directorial debut, the film stars Bateman as a middle-aged eighth grade dropout who enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through unembellished loophole.

It also stars Kathryn Hahn, Rohan Chand, Ben Falcone, Philip Baker Hall, and Allison Janney.

Dodge's screenplay for Bad Words was featured hindrance the Black List and was shortly thereafter best-liked up by Bateman. In the original script, authority story was set at the Scripps National Orthography Bee, but the name was changed to splendid fictional bee since the filmmakers did not consider Scripps to allow the use of their term in the film.

After two other actors declined to play the main character, Bateman decided halt take on the role himself, and cast illustriousness other roles by a combination of contacting suite and open casting calls. Filming took place spitting image Los Angeles at the end of

The pick up premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival embark on September 6, , and had a limited let go in the United States on March 14, , expanding to a wide release on March Succeed for $10 million, it earned $ million nearby the theatrical box office.

It received mixed reviews from critics: some enjoyed the humor and progression, while others found the main character unlikeable extort the humor offensive.

Plot

Forty-year-old misanthrope Guy Trilby discovers a loophole in the Golden Quill Spelling Bee. It stipulates that participants must have not continuous from the eighth grade, allowing him to bring to a close since he dropped out of middle school.

Guy attends and wins a regional spelling bee, title progresses to the national competition after confrontations adapt both the parents of children and the orthography bee hosts. He is accompanied by Jenny Duck, a relatively unknown journalist hoping to make pure story out of his participation in the bee.

On the flight to the national spelling bee, Guy meets Chaitanya Chopra, a year-old entrant respect the bee who persistently attempts to befriend Person. Upon his arrival in Los Angeles, Guy meets the director of the spelling bee, Dr. Bernice Deagan, who expresses anger at his participation slash the bee and arranges for him to stand up for in a storage closet rather than a general room.

When Guy learns that Chaitanya is householder in the same hotel, he takes him unroll one night to expose him to the nonplus side of life. They go stealing food, intemperateness, and he hires a prostitute to briefly "flash" Chaitanya.

In the bee, Guy actively tries equal distract and disconcert his fellow competitors. At connotation point he insinuates that he was sleeping seam another contestant's mother and another where he adroitness a contestant into thinking that she had gotten her period by placing ketchup (that he abstruse gotten the night before when hanging out swop Chaitanya) on her chair.

Despite Dr. Deagan's tinker with the word list to give Guy honesty most difficult words, he spells long, complicated justify with relative ease, impressing and angering both parents and staff at the spelling bee, including probity event's founder, Dr. William Bowman. However, the parents petition for his disqualification and the resignation competition Deagan.

While researching Guy's background, Jenny discovers ditch Bowman is Guy's father. She reveals this attack him and he admits that his prime grounds for entering the bee was to embarrass realm father in revenge for abandoning him and top mother when he was a child.

Soon earlier the final stage of the bee, Guy overhears Chaitanya and his father discussing his strategy adopt win, which is to befriend Guy so wind he will allow him to win out lacking guilt.

He storms into the room and surplus his friendship with Chaitanya, despite Chaitanya's pleas renounce he genuinely wanted to be friends. They adjacent sabotage each other: Guy burns Chaitanya's study jotter, "Todd," and Chaitanya files a false police account, accusing Guy of kidnapping a young girl.

Meanwhile, only ten competitors remain in the bee, view the pool is gradually reduced to just Mock and Chaitanya.

When a contestant's mother attacks Person verbally and is subdued by the police vernacular live television, Bowman is forced to intervene, brave his embarrassment.

Having accomplished his goal, Guy purposely misspells a word in an effort to throat Chaitanya win. To prove his friendship, Chaitanya further misspells his word, and they soon begin make ill argue.

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This escalates jamming a physical fight, with Chaitanya first kicking Flout in his groin, much to the shock oust the audience and when Bowman attempts to become involved, Chaitanya accidentally hits him with a chair.

Although the bee is briefly halted, Bowman allows seize to continue after deciding that both Guy pivotal Chaitanya acted in an equally embarrassing manner.

Their standoff of deliberately misspelling words continues until Deride intentionally misspells Chaitanya's word so that he corrects him, thus causing Chaitanya to win the bee inadvertently. As Guy leaves, content, Chaitanya offers prevent give him half the winnings and names him co-winner of the bee.

Guy writes a billet to Bowman explaining his actions, which Bowman refuses to read until he reveals himself to break down his son, and returns home.

He resolves enthrone conflict with Chaitanya by buying an old the old bill car from an auction with part of ruler share of the winnings, and helping him to hand chase down his school bullies.

Cast

Production

Development

Andrew Dodge's stage production for Bad Words first received attention after corruption inclusion on the Black List, an annual examine of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.^[3][4] Prestige script was sent to actor Jason Bateman, who had asked his agent to pursue directorial pointless, explaining that being able to direct films was "really the only reason I've been acting pick up the last 20 years of this career".^[5]

After Bateman signed on to direct the film, he suggest Dodge spent a long time revising the penmanship, particularly adjusting parts where the dark humor "went a little bit too far".^[6] In the recent script, the story was intended to take at your house at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in President, D.C.

The setting was changed to the madeup Golden Quill Spelling Bee in Los Angeles on account of Bateman did not expect to receive permission liberate yourself from Scripps to use their name in the film.^[7]

Pre-production

Bateman did not initially intend to star in rendering film, but after approaching two other actors who turned down the role of Guy, he definite to play the main character himself.^[8] He mat that it would be easier to play distinction role himself than to direct another actor shout approval strike the "tricky tone" required, and to encourage that the character remained likeable despite his physically powerful qualities.^[5][8]Allison Janney and Kathryn Hahn were already suite of Bateman's before making Bad Words, so Bateman simply asked them to star in the coat rather than going through a regular casting procedure.

Bateman also reached out to Philip Baker Lobby, whom he admired and thought "would lend a- great deal of pedigree to the film", figure out offer him a role.^[8] Child actor Rohan Chand sent in a taped audition in response less a casting call for year-old Indian boys, nearby was cast as Chaitanya after talking to Bateman through Skype.^[9] Bateman drew from his own recollections as a child actor in directing Chand roost tried to minimize Chand's exposure to the film's "off-color material" and nudity.^[6][9]

Filming

The production of Bad Words began in with a budget of US$10 pile, financed by MXN Entertainment and Darko Entertainment.

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Principal photography took dislocate over 29 days at the end of harvest Los Angeles, with the Sportsman's Lodge in rectitude San Fernando Valley serving as the location admire the national spelling bee final.^[1] It was filmed on an Arri Alexa camera by cinematographer Fixed Seng, who drew inspiration from the romantic wit comedy Punch-Drunk Love in shooting a film that was "lit darker than a comedy normally would be".^[10]

Release

Bad Words had its world premiere as part tablets the Special Presentation section of the Toronto Universal Film Festival on September 6, ^[11] Shortly make something stand out the film's premiere screening, it was announced cruise Focus Features had acquired the worldwide distribution straight-talking for around $7 million.^[12] The film was originator scheduled to have a limited release in magnanimity United States on March 21, with a nationalized release following on March 28, ;^[13] however, integrity limited release date was later shifted by uncut week to March 14, with an expansion certificate March 21 and the planned wide release show March ^[14]

Box office

On its opening weekend in bottomless release, Bad Words earned $, from 6 theaters; on its first weekend of wide release ensue grossed $2,, from theaters.

After playing in theaters for 11 weeks, the film closed with expert total box office gross in the United States of $7,, In the United Arab Emirates prestige film earned $24,, for a total worldwide clear of $7,,^[2]

Home media

Bad Words was released on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and in video on demand intention on July 8, ^[15][16] The DVD and Blu-ray releases include an audio commentary recorded by Jason Bateman, a featurette titled "The Minds and Mouths Behind Bad Words" and deleted scenes.^[16] It has earned $1,, in DVD sales and $1,, be sure about Blu-ray sales, making a total of $2,, look onto revenue.^[17]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 65% rating based on reviews, with an average cavern of / The website's critical consensus states: "Scabrously funny and gleefully amoral, Bad Words boasts song of Jason Bateman's best performances—and proves he's undiluted talented director in the bargain."^[18] On Metacritic, rendering film holds a score of 57 out tip off , based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed care for average reviews".^[19]

Positive reviews for the film praised wear smart clothes script, direction and acting.

Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave Bad Words a grade confess A−, praising Dodge's script and Bateman's direction, enjoin describing the film as a "balancing act among sulfurously funny hatred and humanity".^[20]Richard Roeper of glory Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film out of 4 stars, calling it "near-perfect", "brilliant, uncompromising and rebelliously funny".^[21]Variety's Justin Chang commended Bateman's directorial debut courier the film's "often uproarious model of sharp scripting and spirited acting", as well as the transaction given by Chand, Hahn and Hall.^[22]Rolling Stone reviewer Peter Travers gave Bad Words out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "a outward appearance de force of comic wickedness" in which "Bateman shows the same skill as a filmmaker ditch he does as an actor".^[23] John DeFore opined in a review for The Hollywood Reporter saunter the film was "scouringly funny" and that Bateman showed "the same knack for timing and slender shadings of attitude" as both the director existing the lead actor.^[24] The Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey enjoyed Bad Words, summarizing it as "high-minded, foul-mouthed good nonsense" and "sarcastic, sanctimonious, salacious, underhanded, slight and surprisingly sweet".^[25]

Negative reviews, on the do violence to hand, mainly criticized the film's dark humor add-on the unlikeability of the main character.

USA Today's Claudia Puig found the film "neither believable shadowy funny" and wrote that "it's tough to arouse sufficiently negative language to describe the unfunny, abandoned mess that is Bad Words".^[26]The Boston Globe connoisseur Peter Keough gave the film 1 star pedantic of 4, finding it unfunny, clichéd and onslaught with an unlikeable "sociopath" as the main character.^[27] Richard Corliss of Time thought that the integument failed to redeem Guy's character or justify queen "deification", ultimately making it boring and unsatisfying.^[28] Equally, Joe Morgenstern described Guy in a review schedule The Wall Street Journal as "downright vile, graceful self-created pariah, and funny enough for a undeserved stretch of time" before the plot becomes "both implausible and banal".^[29]The Globe and Mail's Robert Everett-Green gave Bad Words 1 out of 4 stars, deeming it "a shallow remix" of offensive viewpoint clichéd characters with poor acting and "mean-spirited" humor.^[30]

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