Many have been the portraits of down-and-out Santas and Christmas Scrooges in the movies. Yet never has the world seen a Santa who has started out in quite such a hilariously rock-bottom place as Willie T. Stokes. He drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor and spreads a lot more Christmas sarcasm than holiday…
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Intolerable Cruelty Production Notes (2003)
Intolerable Cruelty has been in the works for nearly eight years. “Luckily,” says screenwriter / director Joel Coen with regard to the age old subject of the battle of the sexes, “the material is timeless.” “Yes,” agrees screenwriter / producer Ethan Coen, “I don’t think the eight years made much of a difference.” The initial…
Bad Santa (2003)
Taglines: He doesn’t care if you’re naughty or nice. Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking Department Store Santa who can’t help but be more naughty than nice. Underneath his ill-fitting red suit, Willie is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year – on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head…
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Taglines: They can’t keep their hands off each others assets. A very successful divorce attorney based out of Los Angeles, Miles, gets involved with serial divorcee Marylin. They end up getting married and soon Marylin shows her true self by trying to gain financial independence by divorcing him. So begins an enormous battle between the…