Episode 13

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19th May 2021

Bad Santa (2003 Audience Choice)

In the finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003, we’re talking about this season’s audience choice pick, Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa. Directed by Terry Zwigoff from a screenplay by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Bernie Mac and Lauren Graham, Bad Santa defeated Elf and Love, Actually in our audience choice poll of Christmas classics.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bad-santa-2003), Stephanie Zacharek in Salon (https://www.salon.com/2003/11/26/bad_santa/), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2003/11/19/bad-santa-3/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in next time for our 2003 season epilogue.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.