Bad Words
Bad Words is a 2013 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 a loophole. It also stars Kathryn Hahn, Rohan Chand, Ben Falcone, Philip Baker Hall, and Allison Janney.
Plot
Forty-year-old misanthrope Guy Trilby discovers a loophole in the Golden Quill Spelling Bee. It stipulates that participants must have not graduated from the eighth grade, allowing him to enter since he dropped out of middle school.
More details
| author | Andrew Dodge |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Jason Bateman |
| editor | Tatiana S. Riegel |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | buy difficult words drink embarrass force help kidnap live television middle school misanthrope misanthropy sleep spelling bee stealing food the national think want win young girl |
| musicBy | Rolfe Kent |
| producer | Jason Bateman Jeff Culotta Mason Novick Sean McKittrick |
| productionCompany | Aggregate Films Darko Entertainment MXN Entertainment |
| publisher | Focus Features |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | black comedy |