Bad Words

Bad Words (2013)

Genres - Comedy, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Black Comedy, Comedy of Manners  |   Release Date - Mar 14, 2014 (USA - Limited), Mar 21, 2014 (USA - Expanding), Mar 28, 2014 (USA)  |   Run Time - 89 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jason Buchanan

Forty-year-old Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman, starring in his feature directorial debut) discovers a loophole in the National Spelling Bee rules that allows him to compete against the pre-teen participants, and he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 10-year-old misfit named Chaitanya (Rohan Chand) as he becomes the subject of a news story by probing reporter Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn).

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adult [vs. child], misfit, spelling-bee