Movie
description
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-Billy
Bob
Thornton
-Sean
William
Scott
-Susan
Sarandon
With
BAD
SANTA,
Billy
Bob
Thornton
proved
he
was
willing
to
go
all
the
way--no
holds
barred--in
portraying
unsympathetic,
foulmouthed
jerks.
Here
he
brings
that
same
skill
to
bear
as
the
title
character,
a
sadistic
junior
high
school
gym
teacher
who
is
every
uncoordinated
or
overweight
student's
worst
nightmare.
Best-selling
author
of
self-help
books,
Farley
(Sean
William
Scott)
thinks
the
tortures
he's
suffered
at
the
hands
of
Woodcock
are
just
the
stuff
of
traumatic
childhood
memory
(such
as
being
told,
"You
are
a
disgrace
to
fat,
gelatinous
kids
the
world
over"),
until
he
goes
home
to
Nebraska
to
pick
up
an
award
and
learns
his
widowed
mother
(Susan
Sarandon)
is
in
love
with
the
man
who
made
him
miserable
all
those
years
ago.
Farley
recruits
his
unkempt
buddy
(Ethan
Suplee)
in a
series
of
backfiring
schemes
to
wreak
some
belated
vengeance
and
expose
Woodcock
before
the
nuptials
are
sealed.
There's
plenty
of
nasty
repartee
between
Scott
and
Thornton
and
some
funny-disturbing
bits
from
side
characters,
like
Farley's
ferocious
publicist
(Amy
Poehler)
and
Bill
Macy
as
Woodcock's
even
more
sadistic
father.
Sarandon
brings
a
lot
of
touching
innocence
to
the
table
as a
sheltered
widow
daring
to
feel
love
again,
and
Scott
does
some
nice
squirming
and
pratfalls.
But
of
course
it's
Thornton's
movie
all
the
way--he
grabs
the
ball
and
never
lets
it
go,
unless
of
course
it's
to
hurl
it
at
some
poor
kid's
head.
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