Netflix has released the first trailer for Bad Day, the new action comedy starring Cameron Diaz, and it promises one of the most chaotic days ever put on screen.
The film arrives on Netflix on Friday, 11 December 2026. Diaz, 54, plays Joy, a single mother of two daughters who made a pinky promise to her youngest that she would make it to her soccer game — and then watches her day fall apart piece by piece.
The trailer packs in the disasters: Joy’s car gets towed, a television crashes into a fish tank during her father’s dialysis appointment, her bank account is frozen, and she ends up being accused of robbing a bank over a 30-dollar withdrawal. What starts as a string of bad luck snowballs into a full-blown crime caper, with Joy on the run from the law while still trying to get to that soccer game.
Jake Szymanski, best known for Jury Duty, directs from a script by Laura Solon, with Beau Bauman producing. The supporting cast is stacked with comedy talent, including Danielle Brooks, Rhenzy Feliz, John Higgins, Mark Duplass, Ed O’Neill, Rob Corddry, Ben Schwartz and Retta, with Emma Pearson playing Joy’s daughter Katie.
Bad Day runs 1 hour 40 minutes and is rated PG-13. It is Diaz’s third film since her return from an acting break that followed 2014’s Annie, and the trailer suggests she is leaning fully into the physical comedy that made her a star.
The film’s hook is simple and relatable: everyone has had a day when everything goes wrong. Bad Day just takes that feeling to its wildest extreme — and Diaz looks to be having a ball doing it.
Fans of Netflix comedies have had plenty to enjoy lately, from the Trinity trailer starring Richard Madden and Gugu Mbatha-Raw to the Angry Birds Movie 3 trailer with its surprise Sonic cameo. Bad Day joins that line-up on 11 December.
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