Two criminals, Keats and Moses, end their friendship, when Keats turns out to be an undercover cop. Many years later, the two are forced to work together when Keats is assigned to protect Moses as a witness. Director: Ernest R. PG 96 min Comedy, Romance. A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way. PG min Comedy, Crime, Sport. PG 76 min Animation, Comedy, Musical.
Davey Stone, an alcoholic with a criminal record, is sentenced to community service under the supervision of an elderly referee. Davey is then faced with trying to reform and abandon his bad habits.
Dave Buznik is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor. PG 93 min Comedy, Drama. 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. PG 92 min Comedy, Sport.
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house. PG min Comedy, Family, Fantasy. A group of zoo animals decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper find love, without opting to leave his current job for something more illustrious.
PG 90 min Comedy, Sport. A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team. PG 99 min Adventure, Comedy, Family. A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true. So, we've added more movies to this list to better show his success at the box office and appreciate their impact.
A remake of Frank Capras 's classic Mr. Deed Goes to Town , this comedy with romantic lead Winona Ryder is fairly typical of the kind of successful feel-good movie that Sandler would release alongside much more difficult dramedy movies throughout the s, with Mr. The image of Sandler as a somewhat schlubby everyman would prove to be only increasingly successful and, though these movies were rarely well-received by critics, they at the very least enabled more financially risky and creatively rewarding projects from the actor throughout the decade.
The success of this sports comedy would foreshadow the success of a similar movie that features further down on this list, with Sandler proving that he had more believability as an athlete beyond just Happy Gilmore. This football-centric college comedy mixed one of the actor's more typically goofy personas with the tropes of sports movies to create a semi-parody, semi-sincere, underdog story about an unlikely star player found on the sidelines.
The movie revolves around the titular firefighter best friends played by Sandler and his longtime collaborator Kevin James who, in order to secure benefits, fake a married relationship.
It was, similarly to many of the movies on this list, one of the actor's most successful movies at the box office despite being one of the worst-reviewed. Another financially successful remake for Sandler and another foray into the world of sports comedy, this updated version of the movie starring Burt Reynolds assembled one of Sandler's most impressive casts of character actors and comedians ever, including Reynolds himself returning. Sandler stars as a disgraced former football star who, after ending up in a harsh Texas prison, must put together a rag-tag group of inmates to form a team to play the guards.
Adam Sandler turns 55 today. Read our picks and honorable mentions below:. A mostly harmless, rom-com concept that reunites Sandler with Drew Barrymore, picking up where their terrific on-screen chemistry left off six years ago. Sweet, sappy but still raunchy enough for longtime Sandler fans. It convinced directors like Paul Thomas Anderson he had more range than people thought. As mids as it gets, folks. As waterboy for a college football team, timid Louisiana-born Bobby Boucher discovers he has a unique gift for tackling and becomes a member of the team in this outrageously silly sports comedy.
Beloved by his fans, it even stands as one of our favorite college football movies of all time.
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