Bad Teacher

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    Bad Teacher
    2011

    Synopsis

    A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.

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    Cast

    • Cameron DiazElizabeth Halsey
    • Jason SegelRussell Gettis
    • Justin TimberlakeScott Delacorte
    • Lucy PunchAmy Squirrel
    • John Michael HigginsPrincipal Wally Snur
    • Phyllis SmithLynn Davies
    • Thomas LennonCarl Halabi
    • Molly ShannonMelody (Garrett's Mom)
    • Eric StonestreetKirk
    • Dave AllenSandy Pinkus

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Bad Teacher is a worthy successor to the benchmark black comedy "Bad Santa" (without being at all the same).
    • 60

      Empire

      Broader than Bad Santa and less consistently funny, it's still gleefully rude, crude and often a lot of fun.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      For all her desk-stashed booze and inappropriately tight skirts, the movie offers Diaz a pretty bland badness.
    • 60

      Time Out

      The movie works-to the extent that it does-because of its sharply un-PC script (credited to Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky) that sometimes feels like a Hollywood rewrite of "Election."
    • 60

      Arizona Republic

      Probably it's a combination of those and other elements that leads to Diaz's bad teacher not being as bad as she might have been and Bad Teacher not as good as it could have been.
    • 50

      Variety

      What's singularly lacking here is any sense of how to use the underage characters, who, apart from one or two, are a barely distinguishable gaggle.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      We're just watching a film try to pass off misanthropic blunt-wittedness as "edge."
    • 50

      Orlando Sentinel

      Bad Teacher is a pulled punch, a pot-smoking/kid cussing/teacher copulating farce that is less than the sum of its parts.

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