Santa Smokes

Hate the holidays? You're in luck: Here's a bottomed-out Santa story so devoid of Yuletide cheer that it deserves a spot alongside David Sedaris's dyspeptic department-store elf and Terry Zwigoff's rude and crude BAD SANTA. Like countless other aspiring actors in New York City, jerky Johnny Jones (co-writer, -producer and -director Till Terror) knows that somewhere there's a breakthrough part with his name on it, but the only callbacks he's been getting are dodgy roles in student films or projects involving no pay, no lines, full-frontal nudity and condoms. Johnny's girlfriend, Sue (Melissa Friedman), is fed up with his pipe-dreams about stardom and moving to Califor...