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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Bad Santa
2003
***
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom

Billy Bob Thornton is great fun as a nihilistic, misanthropic and heavy-drinking department store Santa who traditionally robs his employer when the season's job is finished. This Christmas comedy is refreshingly anarchistic and unsentimental, but it's ultimately just an implausible, over-streched joke with a protagonist who doesn't have any redeeming features.