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Bad Parents

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 40m
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3.4/10
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Bad Parents (2012)
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A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.

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    • Caytha Jentis
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    • Caytha Jentis
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    • Janeane Garofalo
    • Christopher Titus
    • Michael Boatman
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    583
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    • Director
      • Caytha Jentis
    • Writer
      • Caytha Jentis
    • Stars
      • Janeane Garofalo
      • Christopher Titus
      • Michael Boatman
    • 20User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    Janeane Garofalo
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    • Kathy
    Christopher Titus
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    • Nick
    Michael Boatman
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    • Gary
    Reiko Aylesworth
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    • Laurie
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    1tgmuzik-22670

    I will never get back the time I spent on this garbage

    This is horrible. Nothing funny, nothing but liberalism struggles with "everyone gets a trophy and all kids are equally good at everything and nobody loses" mentality. The acting was bad, the script was bad, even with some well known performers. It was sugar on the crap pile, but this film is absolutely garbage and not a bit entertaining. don't waste your time.
    4paul_m_haakonsen

    This movie was a bit too much...

    For a comedy, then "Bad Parents" was disturbing devoid of laughs and funny moments. As for the drama, well, this movie is sort of the kind of movie that will cause you to get worked up over the characters in the movie, as they really infuriate the audience with their arrogance, their lack of interest for the kids game, and how it becomes a matter of prestige for the parents to have their kids in the game.

    The story is about a small town who puts together a girls soccer team. The coach, which is an arrogant schmuck - to say the least - decides to put the girls into two groups; an A group for the obviously talented players and B group for the less talented group. This has the soccer mom's worked up and struggling to get their girls into the A group. The pressure becomes more and more intense as the girls progress to the semi finals.

    I will say that the concept idea for this storyline may have worked well on script paper, but it didn't translate well into physically being on the screen. Or perhaps it was just the directing of the movie that was questionable.

    The characters in the movie well nicely enough fleshed out and detailed, though most of them come off a snobs, arrogant individuals and people who don't have any consideration about the well-being and fun of their children in the soccer games, and as people who just want to have a prestigious place on the A team. As such, then you really hate and loathe most of the characters in the movie, and they will ignite a spark of anger and resentment in the audience.

    Somewhere along the line, the comedy dropped out of this movie entirely, and there were no laughs at all to be found anywhere.

    It should be said that they do have some good actors and actresses on the cast list to portray these annoying characters and roles. I decided to watch the movie solely because of Janeane Garofalo, but must admit that this movie was not among her better movies.

    Now, I am not overly familiar with soccer moms and the world that they exist in, but I am sure that this movie took all that and put it to the extreme, because the movie was really over the top.
    4lindsaycivin

    Satirical and humorous

    This movie is so stupid it is funny. It's such an over exaggeration and idiotic movie that it almost is good. I don't think it was suppose to be good regardless the humor it has. Quite frankly I thought it was pretty funny and it only takes shallow thoughts to watch it
    2loriesfloyd

    Never get this time back....

    Don't waste your time on this ridiculous movie. It's not even funny to make up for the terrible story. Acting is fine it's the story that is so stupid I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
    3rkderby

    A shiny participation trophy here

    Bad Parents takes a fine, if obvious premise that traveling youth soccer is a vicious jungle and tries hard to make a full movie out of the carnage. But too much emphasis on the repressed sexual needs of the moms, and a terribly misguided reaction to a state finals loss pushes this film over the edge from funny to pathetic.

    As a rule it's only funny if it's funny. If you want to make is serious, that's in play, but then you should consider being realistic.

    I was a soccer parent for several years. The truth in this film is strong in spots, but it got bent like Beckham in my opinion.

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      • October 18, 2012 (United States)
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