Bad Words (2013) on Netflix
Guy Trilby, forty, never graduated eighth grade, and the Golden Quill Spelling Bee bars anyone who has. He enters, with Jenny Widgeon, a journalist, traveling alongside him.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.7/1058,608 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes65%
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Plot summary
Forty-year-old Guy Trilby dropped out of middle school, and the Golden Quill Spelling Bee requires entrants not to have graduated from the eighth grade, so he uses that to enter. He wins a regional bee and progresses to the national competition in Los Angeles, where parents and bee staff object to an adult in the field. Jenny Widgeon, a journalist, accompanies him. On the flight he meets Chaitanya Chopra, a ten-year-old entrant who keeps trying to befriend him. Dr. Bernice Deagan, who runs the bee, is angry at his participation and puts him in a storage closet instead of a room. Guy takes Chaitanya out. They go stealing food and drinking.
Cast
- Gwen Pardenas Brace Faced Girl
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bad Words (2013)
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- In the original script the story took place at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., but the setting was changed to the fictional Golden Quill Spelling Bee in Los Angeles since Bateman did not expect to receive permission from Scripps to use their name.
- Bateman did not initially intend to star in the film, but after approaching two other actors who turned down the role of Guy, he decided to play the main character himself.
- Andrew Dodge's screenplay first drew attention after it was included on the 2011 Black List, the annual survey of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
- Child actor Rohan Chand sent in a taped audition in response to a casting call for 10-year-old Indian boys, and won the part of Chaitanya after talking to Bateman over Skype.
- Shortly after the film's premiere screening, it was announced that Focus Features had acquired the worldwide distribution rights for around $7 million.
- Produced for $10 million, the film earned $7.8 million at the theatrical box office, leaving it short of its production cost in cinemas.
