Bad Teacher (Blu-ray) (2011)

Editor's Note A booze-swilling, pot-smoking, hard-swearing seventh-grade teacher rallies to get out of the classroom for good by wrangling a rich substitute teacher into marriage in this comedy from director Jake Kasdan (WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY). Cynical teacher Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz) hates her job. She can't wait for the day she finds a man who makes enough cash to let her walk away from her life of middle-school misery, and when her fiancé cancels their wedding plans, her frantic search intensifies. Just when it starts to look like Elizabeth will have to muscle her way through another semester of skull-crushing hangovers, however, handsome substitute Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake) shows up at school sporting a fancy wristwatch and the promise of a care-free future. But in order to earn her meal ticket, Elizabeth will have to out-cute perky fellow teacher Amy (Lucy Punch). And it won't be easy, because Scott is crushing on Amy hard. Now, if Elizabeth can just motivate her students to study so that she can win a state contest to earn enough cash for some new breast implants, perhaps she can finally find a means of diverting Scott's gaze. Meanwhile, much to Elizabeth's chagrin, wisecracking, self-effacing gym teacher Russell (Jason Segel) refuses to admit defeat despite being turned down for a date by his gold-digging colleague time and again.

	Lucy Punch
	Cameron Diaz
	John Michael Higgins
	Jason Segel
	Justin Timberlake
	Dave "Gruber" Allen - Co-Star
	Nat Faxon - Co-Star
	Deirdre Lovejoy - Co-Star
	Matt Besser - Co-Star
	Thomas Lennon - Co-Star
	Eric Stonestreet - Co-Star
	Alar Kivilo - Director of Photography
	Georgia Kacandes - Production Manager/UPM
	Gregg Landaker - Sound Re-Recording
	Jeff Judah - Co-Star
	Bruno Gioiello - Co-Star
	Rose Abdoo - Co-Star
	Phyllis Smith - Co-Star
	Lee Eisenberg - Co-Star
	Melvin Mar - Co-Star
	Kathryn Newton - Co-Star
	Daniel Castro - Co-Star
	Kaitlyn Dever - Co-Star
	Matthew J. Evans - Co-Star
	Igal Ben Yair - Co-Star
	Aja Cheyenne Bair - Co-Star
	Andra Nechita - Co-Star
	Noah Munck - Co-Star
	Finneas O'Connel - Co-Star
	Adrian Kali Turner - Co-Star
	Christine Smith - Co-Star
	Christopher Rockwell - Co-Star
	Danny Trap - Co-Star
	Jordan VanVranken - Co-Star
	Hammerhead Productions - Visual Effects Designer
	Manish Raval - Music Director
	Manish Raval - Music Editor
	Carey Dietrich - Assistant Director
	Lona Vigi - Hairstylist
	Ronald J. Webb - Music Editor
	Tom Wolfe - Music Director
	Maggie Fung - Makeup Designer
	Malosi Leonard - Stunt Coordinator
	Tateum Kohut - Sound Re-Recording
	Robin Fredriksz - Makeup
	Michael Andrews - Composer
	Soo Jin Yoon - Hairstylist
	Gene Stupnitsky - Screenwriter
	Lee Eisenberg - Screenwriter
	Pierce E. Austin - Hairstylist
	Katrina Mastrolia - Costumes
	Laurene Alvarado - Makeup
	Gene Rizzardi - Special Effects
	Ron Reiss - Set Decorator
	Jillian Armenante - Co-Star
	Paul Bates - Co-Star
	David Doty - Co-Star
	Stephanie Faracy - Co-Star
	Paul Feig - Co-Star
	Rick Overton - Co-Star
	David Paymer - Co-Star
	Molly Shannon - Co-Star
	Jerry Lambert - Co-Star
	Jennifer Irwin - Co-Star
	Alanna Ubach - Co-Star
	Jake Kasdan - Director

Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "Filthy and unredeeming in all of the right ways, BAD TEACHER is a worthy successor to the benchmark black comedy BAD SANTA....Cameron Diaz reclaims her star-wattage as the sassy, scheming title character..." 06/18/2011

Hollywood Reporter
"Justin Timberlake is amusingly ingenuous....The picture's most entertainingly unhinged element, though, is Lucy Punch..." 06/17/2011

New York Times
"Cameron Diaz taps into her inner thug. It's a beautiful thing." 06/24/2011

Movieline
"Kasdan is extremely clear about the movie's satirical stripes, and he and Diaz are completely in tune....Diaz's great gift is that she's up for anything..." 06/23/2011

Sight and Sound
"[Diaz's] performance is pleasingly scathing....BAD TEACHER, like its subject, doesn't try too hard and, in the end, is more likeable for it." 08/01/2011