Comedy

Bad Words

Darko Entertainment

Aggregate Films

MXN Entertainment

Focus Features

United States of America

English

Jason Bateman

Kathryn Hahn

Rohan Chand

Philip Baker Hall

Allison Janney

Ben Falcone

Steve Witting

Beth Grant

Gwen Parden

Anjul Nigam

Allan Miller

Bob Stephenson

Patricia Belcher

Matthew Zhang

Madison Hu

Michael Patrick McGill

Judith Hoag

Rachael Harris

Mychael Bates

Greg Cromer

Kimleigh Smith

Ethan Dizon

Emily Sarah Carlson

Jacquie Barnbrook

Mak Kriksciun

Sonia Nam

Lucky Davis

Terry Shusta

Connor Kalopsis

Amanda Anka

Tanner Goad

William Maltz

Gregory Sutton

Andrew Dodge

Bonni Flowers

Kimberly Greene

Laurel Kelly

Jose Zamora

Karen Zanki

Chris W. Tucker

Wade Barnett

Steve Cantamessa

Ryan Collins

Chris David

Mark DeSimone

Brian Dunlop

David Esparza

Justin Herman

Ellen Heuer

Sang Jun Kim

Scott La Rue

Travis MacKay

Bradford Ralston

A. Josh Reinhardt

Gabriel J. Serrano

Gary Thomas

Callie Thurman

Thomas Tannenberger

Prasanna Siddharthan

Joshua D. Comen

Tim Carras

Corey Michael Eubanks

Donna Evans

Daniel Boccoli

Mason Novick

Sean McKittrick

Jeff Culotta

Edward H. Hamm Jr. 	

James Garavente

Darren M. Demetre

Rolfe Kent

Ken Seng

Tatiana S. Riegel

Nicole Abellera Hallman

Jeanne McCarthy

Shepherd Frankel

Calla Klessig

Elizabeth Keenan

April Napier

Reno

> 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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