BAD SANTA: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
Terry Zwigoff · 2003 · U.S.
Get tickets at Film Forum“Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is a shopping-mall Santa with a difference: a cynical, safe-cracking alcoholic with a penchant for sex and a wholly unconcealed dislike of kids. Indeed, he only does the job as a cover for the felonies he perpetrates with Marcus (Tony Cox), his criminal-mastermind elf. But then Willie has two not-quite-life-changing encounters: one with self-confessed Santa-groupie Sue (Lauren Graham); the other with parentless eight-year-old Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), whose innocence verges on idiocy and who happens to live in a mansion that’d make a great home for Willie. Wonderfully tasteless, gloriously non-PC, admirably bilious; humourless souls should steer clear.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out