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Brief Synopsis. Elizabeth Halsey is a foulmouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate teacher. She drinks, gets high, and can't wait to marry a meal ticket to get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiancé, she sets her sights on a rich, handsome substitute while shrugging off the advances of the school gym teacher.
- Jake Kasdan
- Cameron Diaz
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Elizabeth Halsey is an immoral English teacher at John Adams Middle School (JAMS) in Cook County, Illinois. She is foul-mouthed and greedy, drinks alcohol heavily, smokes marijuana, and shows movies while sleeping through class. She plans to quit teaching and marry her wealthy fiancé Mark, but must resume her job when he dumps her after learning sh...
Bad Teacher is directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. Columbia Pictures purchased Eisenberg and Stupnitsky's spec script in August 2008. In May 2009, Kasdan was hired to direct Bad Teacher. The following December, Cameron Diaz was cast in the film's lead role. Justin Timberlakewas cast opposite Diaz in M...
Box office performance
The film was released in North America on June 20, 2011 in 3,049 theaters. It took in $12,243,987—$4,016 per theater—in its opening day, and grossed a total of $31,603,106 in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office, behind Cars 2. In Germany, the film reached No. 1 on the country's Cinema Charts in its opening week after 496,000 people saw the film. This caused Kung Fu Panda 2, which reached No. 1 the week before, to fall to No. 2.The film grossed $100.3 million in the U.S.A....
Critical reaction
Bad Teacher received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 44%, based on 178 reviews, with a rating average of 5.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "In spite of a promising concept and a charmingly brazen performance from Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher is never as funny as it should be." Metacritic gave the film a score of 47 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". CinemaScorepolls reported that moviegoers gave the film an...
Jason Segel. Russell Gettis. Lucy Punch. Amy Squirrel. John Michael Higgins. Principal Wally Snur. Molly Shannon. Melody (Garrett's Mom) David "Gruber" Allen.
- Jake Kasdan, Francis Ford Coppola
This scene, along with his archetype defining role as brown-nosing lickspittle Unger in Hulk Hogan's magnum opus 'No Holds Barred', must be the twin peaks in the career of David Paymer.
Music by: Michael Andrews. Producers: Jimmy Miller; David Householter. Keywords: Comedy. When a derelict middle school teacher is dumped by her well-off beau, she must return to her profession to earn enough money for a boob job. Elizabeth Halsey, a Chicago-area middle school teacher who abuses her students and sleeps through classes, finds her ...
