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IrelandCameron Diaz's Bad Day starts with a pinky promise
Netflix's action-comedy trailer turns a mother's trip to her daughter's soccer game into a citywide police pursuit.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 955,317 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (79,740).
Bad Day | Cameron Diaz | Official Trailer | Netflix
Joy needs to withdraw $30. Instead, her bank account freezes, the manager confiscates her card, and the tellers decide they're being robbed. Cameron Diaz's character hasn't set out to become a fugitive. She's just promised to make it to her daughter's soccer game.
That's the escalating predicament in Netflix's trailer for Bad Day, which drew nearly 700,000 views in its first 13 hours, an unusually fast start for the channel's short uploads. The comment section is already far busier than its usual full first day, too.
Diaz plays a single mother whose small commitment meets an increasingly unreasonable obstacle course. A parking boot is only the beginning. At a clinic, she accidentally knocks a television into a fish tank; later, an electric scooter takes her onto a highway. Soon police are pursuing a woman whose original ambition was simply to turn up on time.
Danielle Brooks supplies a useful distinction: "She's a criminal. I didn't say she was good at it." The cast also includes Ed O'Neill, Ben Schwartz, John Higgins, Jessica Belkin and Ayden Mayeri.
Viewers are connecting Diaz's physical comedy to Bad Teacher and recalling The Holiday, while O'Neill's appearance has prompted recognition of Modern Family's Jay Pritchett. Others are concentrating on the smaller indignities, particularly the bank's card reader, rather than the vehicular chaos.
Written by Laura Solon and directed by Jake Szymanski, Bad Day arrives on Netflix December 11. Joy's promise is modest. The route to keeping it involves commandeering a bus.
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What viewers say
That credit card reader scene is spot on
@meg659See it on YouTubeJust hearing Cameron Diaz voice takes me back to 2000s and those feel good rom com era. Holiday is one of my most fav movies.
@hiteshj2110See it on YouTubePrincess Fiona and Jay Pritchett in a film together?! I never thought that I'd see the day!😅
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That day I remembered that Diaz can do physical comedy.
@ZipZeroZilchNadaSee it on YouTubeThis feels like the spiritual sequel to ‘Bad Teacher’ and her comedic chops are still fab
@PokhrajRoy.See it on YouTubeOkay, that last bit with the inhaler got me.
@superstarultra28See it on YouTubeCameron Diaz, Ed O’Neil AND Ben Schwartz in the same movie? I’ve never been more in!
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- Channel
- Netflix
- Subscribers
- 33,800,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 50,151,668
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,979,558 (on a normal day: 7,310,753)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 696,162 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 955,317
The numbers
The trailer's early views stand well above Netflix's usual short-video start, with comments also arriving unusually quickly.
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Who directed The Holiday, the Cameron Diaz comedy viewers recall?
Nancy Meyers wrote and directed The Holiday, released in 2006.