Bad Words (2013)

★ 6.4 1h 29m 897 votes IMDb
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Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

Bad Words

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Cast

Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman as Guy Trilby Age 57 · Rye, New York, USA Jason Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his starring roles in numerous comedy films and for his role as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitco...
Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn as Jenny Widgeon Age 52 · Winchester, Illinois, USA Kathryn Marie Hahn (born July 23, 1973) is an American actress. She began her career on television, starring as a grief counsellor in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan (2001–2007). Hahn gaine...
Rohan Chand
Rohan Chand as Chaitanya Chopra Age 21 · New York City, New York, USA Rohan Chand is an actor. At the age of 6, while playing little league baseball, he caught the eye of a prominent New York-based casting director that cast him in the role of Adam Sandler's adopted son...
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall as Dr. Bowman Died 2022 · Toledo, Ohio, USA Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard E...
Allison Janney
Allison Janney as Dr. Bernice Deagan Age 66 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has rece...
Ben Falcone
Ben Falcone as Pete Fowler Age 52 · Carbondale, USA Benjamin Scott Falcone (born August 25, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is married to actress Melissa McCarthy, with whom he frequently collaborates. Falcone made his directoria...

Audience Reviews

Reno 6/10 Jul 08, 2015
> Good lie, bad words and ugly truth.

I thought it was Cliff Curtis' movie because that's whom I saw in one of the posters. Anyway, it's Jason Bateman's movie, which is also his first directional venture. A refreshing theme because only a very few movies were made based on the spelling bee contest, but this one was a bit messed up story narration. Most of the narrative looked so pale and dull. It is supposed to be an exciting storytelling with blistering pace.

You know, stories in the movies happen with a backdrop of the reasons. Like a piece of uninteresting wood carved into a something that attracts everybody. Some movie holds it till the end to reveal that beauty in the form of a twist, but some won't mind explaining it along the way. In this movie, what they had for the twist was lifeless, boring one, more like a cliché from the older days flick.

The boy from the movie 'Jack and Jill' was decent. I felt some material in the movie was inappropriate regarding a minor in one of the lead roles. But I know the title clearly suggests it is only for adults. Understandable that the writer wanted to give something new, but he could not get it right. Maybe lacked to bring some interesting and inspiring elements. What surprised me was, it was not either for commercial benefit nor a fine art piece.

All the way I knew something was not clinching and finally found out the approach to portray the main character in the negative mode had to do with something. They wanted the viewers to go against him and well, they got it in a way. Interestingly the screenplay was from the 'Black List' which was untouched for almost 10 years. Unfortunately Bateman decided to give it a try and the result is,... Here I'm with not satisfied fully, but okay-okay movie for being at least something different.

6/10

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