Bad Words

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Bad Words is a dark comedy film about a middle-aged man exploiting a loophole to compete in a children's spelling bee, marking Jason Bateman's feature directorial debut.

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instanceOf American film
black comedy film
film
cinematographyBy Ken Seng
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Jason Bateman
distributor Focus Features
editedBy Jeff Groth
featureDirectorialDebutOf Jason Bateman
filmingLocation Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California
genre black comedy
comedy
hasCharacter Chaitanya Chopra
Dave Bowman
surface form: Dr. Bowman

Dr. Deagan
Jenny Widgeon
mainCharacter Guy Trilby
mpaaRating R
musicBy Rolfe Kent
narrativeFocus adult competing in children’s spelling bee through a rules loophole
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A middle-aged man exploits a loophole to enter and compete in a national children’s spelling bee.
portraysCharacter Allison Janney as Dr. Deagan
Jason Bateman as Guy Trilby
Kathryn Hahn as Jenny Widgeon
Philip Baker Hall as Dr. Bowman
Rohan Chand as Chaitanya Chopra
premiereSection Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival
producer Jason Bateman
Mason Novick
Sean McKittrick
productionCompany Aggregate Films
Darko Entertainment
releaseYear 2013
runtime 89 minutes
starring Allison Janney
Ben Falcone
Jason Bateman
Kathryn Hahn
Philip Baker Hall
Rohan Chand
subjectMatter spelling bees
theatricalReleaseCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
theme childhood trauma
competition
friendship
revenge
worldPremiereAt Toronto International Film Festival
writer Andrew Dodge

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Jason Bateman directed Bad Words
Rachael Harris notableWork Bad Words
Ben Falcone appearedIn Bad Words