Bad Words

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

Cast

Jason Bateman

as Guy Trilby

Kathryn Hahn

as Jenny Widgeon

Rohan Chand

as Chaitanya Chopra

Philip Baker Hall

as Dr. Bowman

Allison Janney

as Dr. Bernice Deagan

Ben Falcone

as Pete Fowler

Steve Witting

as Proctor at Spelling Bee

Beth Grant

as Bedazzled Judge

Gwen Parden

as Brace Faced Girl

Anjul Nigam

as Sriram Chopra

Reviews

Reno

> Good lie, bad words and ugly truth. I thought it was Cliff Curtis' movie because that's whom I saw in one of the posters. Anyway, it's Jason Bateman's movie, which is also his first directional venture. A refreshing theme because only a very few movies were made based on the spelling bee contes...

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