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Bad Parents

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 40m
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3.4/10
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Bad Parents (2012)
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A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.

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    • Caytha Jentis
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    • Caytha Jentis
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    • Janeane Garofalo
    • Christopher Titus
    • Michael Boatman
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    3.4/10
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    • Director
      • Caytha Jentis
    • Writer
      • Caytha Jentis
    • Stars
      • Janeane Garofalo
      • Christopher Titus
      • Michael Boatman
    • 20User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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      • 2 wins total

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    1tgmuzik-22670

    I will never get back the time I spent on this garbage

    This is horrible. Nothing funny, nothing but liberalism struggles with "everyone gets a trophy and all kids are equally good at everything and nobody loses" mentality. The acting was bad, the script was bad, even with some well known performers. It was sugar on the crap pile, but this film is absolutely garbage and not a bit entertaining. don't waste your time.
    1cathater15

    Please don't see this

    Just saw this at the Austin Film Festival.

    Plot lines are dropped. Narration goes nowhere. Much of the story stutters and starts and does not end. There are lots of plot holes and unexplained and unresolved issues with story lines, characterizations, and the writing was not strong enough to really make me care what happened, it just made me angry that it didn't finish.

    The sound mixing and editing was unbearable. The lines recorded in post were so evident and that it was literally blaring in the middle of the character's conversation. Almost no attempt to incorporate them into the prerecorded dialogue.

    Characters are not fleshed out and unlikable. No one has a redeeming quality. The casting was misdirected (why does the black/white biracial couple have a child darker than the black parent?). People are introduced into the movie and then never seen again.

    There was a lot of potential. Disappointing.
    4cekadah

    An A list cast ....

    .... in a B grade flick!

    With names of the cast alone I was sure this would be a funny movie but it just doesn't come together. It has little to do with parenting and an awful lot to do with soccer and the parents ego.

    In other words the soccer game was all. Maybe it should have been titled Bad Coach or Bad Soccer. The current title lead me to expect otherwise.

    And the bit part by Ben Bailey ---- what was that for? What did I miss? Maybe my attention drifted but I thought for sure he would be back in the story later. Nope.

    If you want a funny movie in the "Bad" series, Bad Teacher is fantastic!
    1geneosimeone

    Very weird

    The whole entire movie I was uncomfortable. I cringed the whole movie and was just disgusted.
    1DarthLiss

    This made me physically ill

    This movie made me physically ill. Stupidest thing I have ever seen. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes rates a 10 compared to this piece of refuse.

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      • October 18, 2012 (United States)
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