Bad Santa

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Movie
German title Bad Santa
Original title Bad Santa
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length Cinema: 91 minutes,
extend: 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Terry Zwigoff
script Glenn Ficarra ,
John Requa
production Bob Weinstein ,
John Cameron ,
Sarah Aubrey
music David Kitay
camera Jamie Anderson
cut Robert Hoffman
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Bad Santa 2

Bad Santa is an American crime comedy in which Zwigoff Terry directed. The leading roles are cast with Billy Bob Thornton , Bernie Mac and Lauren Graham . The film was made in 2003 and was released in Germany on November 18, 2004. In 2016, the sequel Bad Santa 2 was released in cinemas.

action

Willie T. Stokes works as a department store Santa Claus every year , but he's not at all good at his job: Willie drinks excessively, curses, and curses the children who sit on his lap. But that's not all: together with his diminutive buddy Marcus, he robs the department stores in which he works. However, Willie's life begins to change when he meets a little boy named Thurman Merman, who lives alone with his senile grandmother and who desperately believes in Santa Claus. Willie stays with Thurman and his grandma without further ado. There is also the devious department store detective Gin, who has learned of a planned robbery by the duo and is using it to blackmail the two men, as well as the attractive Sue, who loves Santa Claus and falls in love with Willie.

Thurman slowly teaches Willie the real meaning of Christmas , while Willie teaches him how to - literally - get through life. Willie's partner Marcus is not at all enthusiastic about this change.

Department store detective Gin finds out that Willie and Marcus have robbed a department store every Christmas Eve for seven years and blackmailed them for half of the loot. Marcus then gets Gin out of the way and also wants to kill Willie, but is prevented from doing so by the arriving police. Willie manages to escape at first, but is shot and arrested in front of Thurman's house with his Christmas present in hand. Despite these adverse circumstances, Thurman receives Willie's gift.

A few months later, Thurman receives a letter from Willie informing him that he is fine and that he will soon be released. Since Willie has made a full confession and has agreed to cooperate with the police, his sentence has been reduced accordingly.

production

Production notes, background

The film was produced by Dimension Films , Triptyh Pic. and Blixa Second Film Production.
Originally, Bill Murray was supposed to play Willie T. Stokes, but canceled to play in Lost in Translation . Even Jack Nicholson was interested in the role of Willie T. Stokes, but also had other commitments. So the role went to Billy Bob Thornton. Bad Santa was the last film by the actor John Ritter , who died on September 11, 2003. The film was dedicated to him.

Music in the film (selection)

Voice actor

The dubbing was done under the direction of Pierre Peters-Arnolds , who was responsible for the script and the dialogue direction , at the dubbing company PPA Film GmbH Pierre Peter Arnolds, Munich.

actor role Voice actor
Billy Bob Thornton Willie T. Stokes Gudo Hoegel
Bernie Mac gin Oliver Stritzel
Lauren Graham Sue Sandra Schwittau
Tony Cox Marcus Tobias Lelle
Brett Kelly Thurman Merman Moritz Günther
Lauren Tom Lois Veronika Neugebauer
John Knight Bob Chipeska Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Ethan Phillips Roger Merman Claus Brockmeyer
Cloris Leachman grandmother Margit Weinert
Tom McGowan Harrison Dirk Galuba
Matt Walsh Herb Ulrich Frank
Billy Gardell Security guard in Milwaukee Gerhard Jilka

publication

The film was released in three different versions: Theatrical Version (FSK 12) 91 minutes, Extended Version (FSK 16) 98 minutes and Director's Cut 88 minutes. The Director's Cut has not yet been released in Germany.

The film had its premiere on November 18, 2003 in Westwood, California, on November 26, 2003 it was then generally shown in the USA and on November 28, 2003 in Canada. The film was presented on May 19, 2004 at the Cannes Film Festival , on September 14, 2004 at the Film by the Sea Film Festival in the Netherlands, on September 18, 2004 at the Athens Film Festival, on October 24, 2004 the Night Visions Film Festival in Finland and on November 24, 2004 at the Brno Film Festival in the Czech Republic. It was also published in 2004 in the following countries: New Zealand, Finland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Australia, the Netherlands, Poland , Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, Japan (Tokyo), Spain, Greece, the Philippines, Brazil, Thailand, Estonia, the metropolis Hong Kong, Argentina and Singapore as well as Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, Romania, Serbia, Russia , Slovenia, Turkey and Uruguay.

The film was released in Germany on November 18, 2004, in Austria on November 19, 2004, in German-speaking Switzerland on November 25, 2004, in Italian-speaking Switzerland on November 26, 2004 and in French-speaking Switzerland on December 8, 2004. The English title of the longer version is Badder Santa .

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on June 7, 2005 with a German soundtrack on DVD.

criticism

Bad Santa received an overall positive response from the criticism . Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a positive rating of 78 percent based on 217 reviews, while Metacritic awarded 70 out of a possible 100 points.

In his review for the Boston Globe , Tyr Burr regretted the too small roles of Bernie Mac and Lauren Graham, but explicitly praised the acting performance of Billy Bob Thornton.

Roger Ebert praised the movie Bad Santa in his column for the Chicago Sun Times as "uncompromising" and "funny".

The lexicon of international films wrote: "What appears on the surface as a rude and sordid anti-Christmas film develops into a tongue-in-cheek anarcho-comedy with satirical and melodramatic accents, thanks to excellent actors and the pointed script."

TV Spielfilm pointed the thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for claim, action, tension and eroticism and three points for humor and said: "A rough, respectless and taboo-free fun with nice nasty humor." Conclusion: " F ***! Christmas haters welcome. "

epd Film spoke of “one of the 'blackest' Christmas films of all time - and not just because, as experts have counted, Santa Claus Billy Bob Thornton says 'fuck' 146 times and still says 'shit' half as often”. It also said: “BAD SANTA is a parody of all those films that celebrated the festival as redemption and purification, a journey into the heart of Christmas darkness. Films about Santa Claus are, even more than Christmas films in general, an all-American genre, an icon of popular culture: Coca-Cola has been advertising with the cute Mr since the thirties, and shopping centers can no longer be imagined without him. […] BAD SANTA, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, violates everything that is sacred to us at Christmas. That even includes the weather -Dean Martin sings 'Let it snow, let it snow' while Willie and his assistant stroll through hot Phoenix / Arizona. "

Kino.de stated : "If you feel like a hard-boiled contrast program to traditional Christmas entertainment, you are right with the pitch-black, profane satire by cult director Terry Zwigoff [...]." "Interesting" is the soundtrack compilation of this hotly debated beforehand Films, in which the parent company Disney was not too enthusiastic about the Miramax production, which mixed classical music and tried-and-tested Christmas carols. The cast with Thornton was of the opinion that he was perfect in the role of the "disgruntled misanthrope", one could not ask for a better one. "Thanks to the aggressive excess, there will always be a cult niche for this tab-free 'Christmas comedy'", it concluded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bad Santa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, December 2004 (PDF; theatrical version).
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Bad Santa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, March 2005 (PDF; Extended Version).
  3. ↑ Age rating for Bad Santa . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ Bad Santa adS IMDb.de
  5. ^ German dubbing files: Bad Santa . Retrieved December 27, 2008 .
  6. ↑ Bad Santa Extended Version: "He doesn't care if you were good or not."
  7. ↑ Bad Santa. In: Rotten Tomatoes . Accessed December 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bad Santa. In: Metacritic . Accessed December 18, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Bad Santa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 18, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ Bad Santa Black comedy adS tvspielfilm.de (5 movie images and trailers in German). Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  11. ^ Review of "Bad Santa" adS epd-film.de (with trailer). Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Bad Santa": Black Christmas comedy about two crooks disguised as Santa Claus and an elf, whose thieving plan is thwarted by a shrewd eight-year-old. adS kino.de (with 19 pictures + trailer). Retrieved December 18, 2017.