The comedy "Bad Santa", the actors and roles that are presented in this article, was released in 2003. The film is directed by the Cohen Brothers. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award.
Plot
Former prisoner Willie is the protagonist of the movie Bad Santa. The actor who performed this role is best known for the drama "Honed Blade". Willie is a drunkard and a loser. He makes money by changing clothes every year in Santa Claus, getting a job in a large shopping center, and on the eve of Christmas he carries out a robbery. African American, a dwarf named Marcus is an accomplice of the protagonist in the movie Bad Santa. The actor who played this character played more than forty roles in the movie.
The plan of criminals is as follows. Willie wears a Santa Claus outfit, while Marcus acts as an elf. The small dimensions of a friend of the protagonist allow him to hide on the night before Christmas in a secluded place and go unnoticed by guards. Willie, being an experienced bear cub, easily opens the safe. Then the robbers take a large sum of money, which is enough for them for a whole year.
Willie leads a wild lifestyle. He quickly drank the "earned" money, and by the next holiday he becomes almost a pauper.
This time, the robbery plan works, it would seem, as always, successful. Willie entertains the kids, his faithful assistant helps him in this. Well, only the manager of the shopping center does not like the moral character of the newly hired Santa. At the end of the working day, Willie, as a rule, is already drunk, and once the store manager found him with a visitor in a dressing room. But getting rid of Santa and his friend is not so simple, because the dismissal of a black dwarf can be perceived as discrimination. The store manager has no choice but to wait when Willie compromises himself.
Suddenly, a security guard of a shopping center adjoins a criminal couple. Jin is another character in Bad Santa. The actor, who embodied this image on the screen, is also known for the film "Charlie's Angels". The genie offers the criminals to take him into a share, for which he undertakes not to extradite their criminal past to his superiors.
The plan of criminals does not work. Willie meets a strange boy named Terman. Moreover, at some point he even tries to replace his father. Terman is the one who will prevent the robbery. This is the plot of the crime comedy "Bad Santa."
Actors
The main role was played by Billy Bob Thornton. Tony Cox played the dwarf burglar in the movie Bad Santa. Actor Brett Kelly played the role of Terman. Bernie Mack - Gina. Other Bad Santa actors: Lauren Graham, John Ritter, Lauren Tom, Ajay Naidu, Matt Walsh, Alex Borshtein.
Billy Bob Thornton
The lead actor in the movie Bad Santa is an actor, director, and screenwriter. For one of his scripts, he received an Oscar. Thornton was born in 1955. His father taught history, his mother was clairvoyant. The future actor dreamed of becoming a musician. However, fate decreed otherwise, and already in the 80s, movie fans knew the name of Bob Thornton. The role in the film "Honed Blade" brought him world fame. Thornton played in the films In Deadly Danger, For Boys, One Wrong Move, and many others.