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DVD, 2014
Current format, DVD, 2014, Widescreen ed., Available .
DVD, 2014
Current format, DVD, 2014, Widescreen ed., Available . Offered in 0 more formats
Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life. "Bateman's directorial debut is a brisk, brutally funny and pitch-black comedy."--Richard Roeper. "For his directorial debut, Mr. Bateman acquits himself nicely, promising even better things to come."--Rex Reed. "A scouringly funny tale of ill-conceived revenge."--Hollywood Reporter. "The performances are funny, appealing and, in the case of Allison Janney, as a spelling bee official, wonderful."--New York Times. "In this profanely funny comedy of bad manners and hurts that won't heal, Bateman shows the same skill as a filmmaker that he does as an actor. And that's something to see."--Rolling Stone.
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English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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