During the Christmas period, we are all searching for Christmas movies to watch. One of them is the movie “A Bad Moms Christmas”.
Let’s find out more about the movie!
- A Bad Moms Christmas is a 2017 American Christmas comedy film.
- It is written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
- It is a sequel to the 2016 film Bad Moms.
- The plot follows the three moms from the first film dealing with their own mothers visiting during the Christmas holiday..
- The 3 mothers from the first movie are portrayed by Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn.
- The others mothers are portrayed by Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, and Susan Sarandon.
- The film was released in the United States on November 1, 2017.
- It grossed over $130 million.
- It received mixed reviews, with criticism aimed at the thin story and raunchiness.
- In April 2019, it was announced that a sequel was in development.
- Kathryn Hahn wrote a personal letter to Susan Sarandon, asking her to play her mother in the film.
- Carla works at Okole Spa. “Okole” is Hawaiian for butt.
- Cheryl Hines is only 15 years older than her on-screen daughter Kristen Bell.
- The film was announced on December 23, 2016, just two months after the first movie finished its theatrical run in the United States.
- Only 15 months separate the release dates of the original film and its sequel.
- Amy’s children complain about Ruth (Amy’s mom) taking them to see “The Nutcracker” in Russian, saying they’re not Russian.
- Mila Kunis is originally from Ukraine and speaks fluent Russian
- When Cheryl Hines’ character first arrives she is wearing a sweater with a picture of a young Kristen Bell on it.
- The sweater that Bell is wearing says “Shrine” which is the high school she attended, located in Royal Oak, Michigan.
- During the scene where Amy discovers her mother decorating her house, there’s a cut scene to the dancing ladies- which have Mila Kunis’ face.
- When Sandy (Cheryl Hines) and Kiki (Kristen Bell) are getting counseling, and Sandy is listing fake illnesses that she has in order to get sympathy, the last “illness” that Sandy states that she has is “lazy eye.”
- Kristen Bell actually has a “lazy” right eye in real life.
- Mila Kunis’s character celebrates Christmas, Kunis herself comes from a Jewish family and does not celebrate Christmas.
- Three New Zealanders, following in the footsteps of Kiwi heroes Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, are watching this film every week for a year (52 times in total) for their podcast “The Even Worse Idea of All Time”.
- Principal photography on the film began on May 1, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia.
- On the ballerina displays outside of Amy’s house, viewers can see an image of actress Mila Kunis’s face. Kunis plays a ballerina in Black Swan.
- Amy’s mom Ruth is obsessed with decorating Amy’s house. Christine Baranski, who plays Ruth, is also obsessed with decorating her house in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2000) as Martha May Whovier.
- Like her character, Kathryn Hahn is originally from Cleveland.
- When everyone goes to Sky Zone they are all wearing orange Sky Zone grippy socks. Sky Zone requires all jumpers to only wear their branded socks for safety and hygienic purposes.
- Christine Baranski’s character Is from Chicago. Sixteen years earlier, she played Mary Sunshine in the film Chicago (2001)
