Synopsis
Nature called. Look who answered.
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Big Daddy
1999 Directed by Dennis Dugan
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Adam Sandler Joey Lauren Adams Jon Stewart Cole Sprouse Dylan Sprouse Leslie Mann Rob Schneider Steve Buscemi Josh Mostel Allen Covert Kristy Swanson Joseph Bologna Peter Dante Jonathan Loughran Tim Herlihy Edmund Lyndeck Larkin Malloy Jared Sandler Jackie Sandler Geoffrey Horne Deborah S. Craig Steven Brill Dennis Dugan
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Dude, this movie was my childhood. Screw off, this is a friggin masterpiece and I don’t give a shit about what you say.
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the cultural impact of this movie!! i mean...
- the court room scene where everyone starts calling their fathers? inspired greta gerwig to write a complicated mother/daughter film that is filled with love and ends with the daughter calling her mom to say she loves her
- the whole teaching julian to tie his shoes bit? marriage story & jojo rabbit i’m looking at you
- obviously i don’t need to get into the daddy longlegs dir. by the safdie brothers similarities!!
- the founding father play? why did we need hamilton when this five year old was able to summarize his impact in 10 seconds
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I've always held the belief that this was one of Sandler's legitimately good movies. I no longer hold that belief. It's no Wedding Singer. But maybe the Wedding Singer is no Wedding Singer. I'm almost afraid to go and re-watch that one now. Not that I was under any illusion in the first place that Big Daddy was a great movie (I had it rated three stars), but this was much worse than I remembered. It's funny how our memory doesn't change as our taste in movies matures, leading to traumatic re-watch events like this one. Well, maybe traumatic is going too far in this case, but you know what I mean.
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"I wipe my own ass."
"Me too!"Sweet and cheesy, hitting the right, excessive notes of excess when it comes to 1990s comedies, Dennis Dugan's 'Big Daddy' is Adam Sandler fitting into his success of the decade comfortably, playing a childish man living off a court settlement with no aspirations in life and no girlfriend, finding himself caring for his roommate's biological child, a mystery who has turned up out of the blue after five years. As the two bond in their own ridiculous, childish way, Sandler's Sonny Koufax starts to cheat the system to ensure he can continue to care for the kid (adorably played by the Sprouse brothers).
It's an endearing predicament, one doomed from the outset due…
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Big Daddy is a pretty good movie. This film definitely isn’t one of the most well written or most unique comedies but it’s such a sweet and funny film that’s hard to give a low score. The plot is okay it’s a predictable but entertaining story. The structural format of the plot has been used many times before and this film doesn’t do anything entirely fresh or unique but regardless it’s still an enjoyably entertaining story. It’s a story that has a surprising amount of heartfelt moments that are mixed with humor well. The story has a ton of major flaws the most notable being that there is a lot of plot holes causing convolution…
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Legit just realized that people... don’t like this movie??
Holy crap. This movie is my childhood. Watched it so much, I wore out the VHS tape (only other film to have that honor for me is The Truman Show.)
5 stars for nostalgic value and incredibly fond, priceless childhood memories.
Bloody love this film.
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Steve Buscemi almost managed to save this movie but he is only one. The spit part is still really disgusting. And remember, kids, learn to read so as to not end up in hollywood making box office hits and denying your childhood experiences.
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Does it make any sense? No. Was it adorable and perhaps Sandler’s most underrated 90s’ film? Yes.
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Sandler and the kid from friends pal about for an hour and a half, remember this being less of a dud
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Theatre watch. Haven’t seen it since. I gave it a half star extra because I’m thinking with weed and my cynicism to certain things dulled, I may dig it a bit.
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