Bad Teacher (2011)
Bad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.
Director: Jake Kasdan
Jake Kasdan, son of Lawrence Kasdan, directed Zero Effect and the music biopic parody Walk Hard before moving into studio comedy with Bad Teacher and Sex Tape.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was the surprise. Reviving a property twenty years on by making the premise a video game, and casting adults playing teenagers playing avatars, gave the cast something specific to do and grossed close to a billion dollars.
Walk Hard remains the connoisseur’s pick, a parody so precise that it made the music biopic formula difficult to use straight for years.
