Jason Bateman fully admits his character Guy Trilby isn’t anyone’s idea of a hero. In “Bad Words,” Bateman’s directorial debut that opens Friday, Trilby worms his way into a children’s ...

Jason Bateman's spelling-bee comedy "Bad Words" is four-fifths of a good movie. It is funny, it is irreverent, it is original and -- especially considering it is Bateman's feature directing ...

Jason Bateman directs himself in the dark, change-of-pace comedy 'Bad Words' ...

The first news to come out of "Bad Words" is that Jason Bateman can direct. You can find evidence of that in the actors' performances and in the spare, clear way he conveys the screenplay's ideas ...

Jason Bateman's past lies in front of him, on a piece of paper, face down. Typewritten on the flip side is a quotation of his from 1987, when he was a teen idol starring in "Teen Wolf Too." “Ugh ...

Jason Bateman celebrated his directorial debut Bad Words at the Los Angeles premiere at the ArcLight Cinemas on Wednesday night.

Who doesn’t love Jason Bateman? His career spans a long list of hilarious roles, from the straight-laced Michael Bluth to an employee pushed to the edge in “Horrible Bosses.” In nearly every movie, he ...

Jason Bateman, in his new film “Bad Words,” plays a boorish man-child who at one point smears ketchup on the chair of a middle school girl to cripple her with pubescent embarrassment during a ...

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Jason Bateman (left) stars as Guy Trilby and Kathryn Hahn (right) as Jenny Widgeon in the subversive comedy Bad Words, a Focus Features release.