Bad Words
Directed by Jason Bateman
An adult, who has been a school dropout, finds a loophole in the regulations and participates in the largest spelling bee in the USA, The Golden Quill. His aim is to take revenge for something done to him in the past.
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- arekyyz12 August 2025Good cast, but I really found the racism and the portrayal of child abuse as humour unsettling and unfunny.
- neuroparadox29 July 2025Not sure if this movie is funny enough to excuse it's casual racism, even though it thinks it pulls it off. Professor Indiana Jones calling a Chinese boy "Short Round" as a sobriquet is NOT the same as a nobody, spelling bee loser calling an Indian Boy "Slumdog" or, "Chai-Walla" or, a bunch more. Still, it's pretty funny if you can take a fucking joke. And it has a pinch of heart.
- adecaria12 July 2025A splentic 40-year-old man with unresolved paternal issues unleashes a fusillade of delectable invectives upon his bemused love interest, precocious elementary school children, their apoplectic parents, and the hapless administrators of a prestigious orthographic competition.
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Bad Words was released on 1 November 2013.
Bad Words was directed by Jason Bateman.
Bad Words has a runtime of 89m.
Bad Words was produced by Jason Bateman, Jeff Culotta, Mason Novick, Sean McKittrick.
An adult, who has been a school dropout, finds a loophole in the regulations and participates in the largest spelling bee in the USA, The Golden Quill. His aim is to take revenge for something done to him in the past.
The key characters in Bad Words are Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman), Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn), Chaitanya Chopra (Rohan Chand).
Bad Words is rated 15.
Bad Words is a Comedy, Drama film.
Bad Words has an audience rating of 6.1 out of 10.
Bad Words had a budget of US$9.5M.
Bad Words has made US$7.8M at the box office.