Search - Badder Santa: The Unrated Version on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Brief Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse, Slapstick Violence Movie Release: 2003 DVD Release: 06/22/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: Dimension Total Copies: 27 Genres: Comedy, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy, Holiday Film See Also: Bad Santa, Bad Santa [Director's Cut], Badder Santa [Blu-ray]

The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, his pal tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to crack mall security and rob stores blind just before Christmas. However, there's one flaw to this plan -- Willie is a bitter, foul-mouthed and perpetually grouchy alcoholic who doesn't care for kids, and it's all he can do to keep himself from getting fired while on the job. The mall's manager (John Ritter, in his last film appearance) is certain something's wrong with the Santa he's hired, so he asks the mall's chief of security (Bernie Mac) to do some research on Willie. Meanwhile, one of the kids Willie is forced to talk to becomes a regular customer; overweight, awkward, and the frequent target of bullies, the boy manages to arouse something like sympathy from Willie, who tries to give him some advice and develops something vaguely resembling Christmas sprit along the way. Bad Santa was directed by Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed previous success with Crumb and Ghost World. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Billy Bob Thornton - Willie T. Stokes
Tony Cox - Marcus
Brett Kelly - Thurman Merman
Lauren Graham - Sue
Lauren Tom - Lois

Best to be sure that the kids are fast asleep before this Santa pays your family a visit! What better way to celebrate Christmas in June than with Dimension Home Video's release of director Terry Zwigoff's hilariously raunchy holiday comedy Bad Santa? Presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, the image offers solid, bright colors, even skin tones, and minor edge enhancement. Though the English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio isn't overloaded with directional effects, it makes effective, infrequent use of the rear channels from time to time and remains clear of hiss or distortion throughout. If viewers are at first disappointed by the apparent lack of such in-depth extra features as director's commentary, there are some colorful, albeit minor, extras on this disc that will no doubt soften the blow a bit. A brief, "Behind-the-Scenes Special" follows the film from inception to final cut through interviews with the cast and crew, and a handful of deleted and alternate scenes manage to entertain despite the fact that their exclusion from the feature was entirely justified. That said, the true gems of this particular release are the outtakes and the "Badder Santa Gag Reel." Though the outtakes segment does recycle some of the footage from the aforementionsed deleted and alternate scenes, the infectious energy and good humor of the talented cast and crew makes for a few solid chuckles, and this giddiness certainly carries over into the "Badder Santa Gag Reel" -- which offers a quick montage of off-the-cuff goofiness. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide