2013 · comedy · parody
Bad Words
Directed by Jason Bateman1h 29m2013
Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.
Our read: Bad Words (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / parody, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intimate
- funny
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