Bad Teacher

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Bad Teacher

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2011

1h 32m

Romance

Comedy

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For most, teaching is an honorable profession -- except for Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz). The foul-mouthed, boozy woman can't wait to marry a rich man and quit her job, but she has to rethink her plans when her sugar daddy dumps her. Then Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), a substitute teacher who's cute and rich, arrives. Elizabeth can't wait to sink her teeth into a new meal ticket, but she faces stiff competition from Amy (Lucy Punch), a popular and perky colleague.

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Critics Consensus

In spite of a promising concept and a charmingly brazen performance from Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher is never as funny as it should be.

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Sara Reihani

Bitch Media

01/07/2021

Just a banal, boring kind of awful.

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

08/24/2018

3/5

Much like one of Elizabeth's classes, there are no lessons to be learned, but this mischievous, borderline amoral little number passes the time in a surprisingly amusing fashion.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

07/19/2011

2.5/5

While a few of Diaz's scenes with Timberlake and his gift for the deadpan seem as if they're going to amount to something, the script's dialogue fails them.

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

01/04/2025

Comedy lovers will appreciate Bad Teacher as one of the early pioneering movies that let women be as imperfect, shiftless and messy as the guys in a Judd Apatow movie.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

02/16/2024

4/5

Any attempt to be like other teacher movies and make memorable students roles to go with the lead teacher takes a backseat to focusing on an evil Cameron Diaz and her rocking bod.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/11/2023

2/4

The filmmakers play it safe, which is exactly what anyone seeing this movie doesn’t want.

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Joel B

@Jbedford 5d

A laugh a minute. Great writing, performances, and very cutting which I just loved. Reviewers offended by the lead’s narrative arc missed the redemption at the end and forgot they were watching a comedy.

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Rev D

@TheRevDude99 Feb 2

So let me get this straight. Your idea of a hero is let's get the worst person possible. Have her go up against the actual nice person who's actually trying to prove how crooked and horrible this woman is. Yet somehow the good person who's trying to prove that there was drugs on campus and fraud is the bad guy in the story. It seems overtly narcissistic to make this Woman the hero of the story when she has done nothing good the entire time. In fact, the only good thing she does is still perverted by giving an underage boy a bra

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Michael H

@MICHAELH434 Jan 28

Funny movie, main character is just a bad person and gets what she wants with no reputations like no conflict in the movie

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Sean M

Dec 25

You don't 'need' to see this film, but it 'is' funny.

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Stephen P

Nov 6

I don't understand the low score. Its is so funny. Mabye only a certain audience appreciate the humour unlike the generic public

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Marc C

@MMC1970 Jul 26

I think it is hilarious. I really don't get how people hate it.

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Jake Kasdan

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Cameron Diaz

Elizabeth Halsey

Justin Timberlake

Scott Delacorte

Jason Segel

Russell Gettis

Lucy Punch

Amy Squirrel

John Michael Higgins

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Synopsis

For most, teaching is an honorable profession -- except for Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz). The foul-mouthed, boozy woman can't wait to marry a rich man and quit her job, but she has to rethink her plans when her sugar daddy dumps her. Then Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), a substitute teacher who's cute and rich, arrives. Elizabeth can't wait to sink her teeth into a new meal ticket, but she faces stiff competition from Amy (Lucy Punch), a popular and perky colleague.

Director: Jake Kasdan
Producer: Jimmy Miller, David B. Householter
Screenwriter: Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Mosaic
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 24, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 7, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $100.3M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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