When her older sister is unjustly suspended from school, eight-year-old Sue Ellen starts to doubt that brains and hard work are enough to keep her out of trouble. Bad teachers, prejudices, bullies: there are impediments to success. Sue Ellen takes a drastic step to take control.

Director's Statement
Bad Things is a movie about anger. It’s a movie about the moments that build into the slow realization that the world isn’t fair. And then the insult-to-injury: the people who make the world unfair will never have to come to this realization. The perpetrators, the benefactors of the imbalance will never be forced to care about that injustice and will never willfully acknowledge it. I wrote this film because the story of unfairness isn't clean or simple. Our instincts get confused with our desire for self-preservation and with our anger; our moral compasses are never uncompromised; doing a bad thing can feel like the only thing left to do. Stories are supposed to create empathy, and that's why I made this film.
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"Bad Things makes you root for an ending you shouldn't want."
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