Bad Santa – The Unrated Version (2003)
Billy Bob Thornton mimes the worst Santa Claus that the western world has ever seen; not house broken, permanently drunk and seemingly without the slightest evidence of morals, he makes a living from performing once a year as Santa accompanied and master-brained by an elf-midget; and every 24th of the year they land there annual coup and rob the department store they have been working in. The story is pissingly funny – I haven’t laughed like that in years, but the plot very much resembles Nick Hornby’s “About a boy”: An unsocial man finds his way back into society by getting emotionally caught up with an awkward little boy. [181105; 22:23]
Billy Bob Thornton mimes the worst Santa Claus that the western world has ever seen; not house broken, permanently drunk and seemingly without the slightest evidence of morals, he makes a living from performing once a year as Santa accompanied and master-brained by an elf-midget; and every 24th of the year they land there annual coup and rob the department store they have been working in. The story is pissingly funny – I haven’t laughed like that in years, but the plot very much resembles Nick Hornby’s “About a boy”: An unsocial man finds his way back into society by getting emotionally caught up with an awkward little boy. [181105; 22:23]