Big Daddy (film)

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Big Daddy
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Produced by Joseph M. Caracciolo
Allen Covert
Michelle Holdsworth
Adam Sandler
Robert Simonds
Written by Steve Franks
Tim Herlihy
Adam Sandler
Starring Adam Sandler
Joey Lauren Adams
Jon Stewart
Rob Schneider
Cole Sprouse
Dylan Sprouse
and Leslie Mann
Music by Teddy Castellucci
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) 17 June 1999
Running time 93 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Big Daddy is a comedy film starring Adam Sandler that was released in 1999.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Sandler plays 32-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities. However, as his old buddies start getting married and drifting away and his girlfriend leaves him for a much older man, Sonny realizes that if he doesn't do something soon, he could end up all alone for the rest of his life. Sonny finds himself in charge of a 5-year-old child. The boy was moved by his dying mother from Buffalo to be with his father, and Sonny comes to love the boy and wants to keep him.

The film won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture and Sandler won both an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance and a Razzie Award for Worst Actor. The film and its cast and crew also earned nominations for four additional Golden Raspberry Awards.

At the box office Big Daddy has proven to be Sandler's biggest hit. Grossing $163.4 million dollars in the United States and $234.8 total worldwide.

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[edit] Cast

  • Al Cerullo - Helicopter Pilot


[edit] Trivia

  • As Sonny putts on the roof of his apartment building, Kevin reminds him that it "breaks to the right". This is a reference to Happy Gilmore, in which Sandler's character is told the same thing by his homeless caddy.
  • If you listen carefully, throughout the film you can hear songs by Styx.
  • In the credits, the first actual recording of the 'new' Guns N' Roses can be found. The new band plays the second half of Sweet Child O' Mine.
  • The World Trade Center can be seen in the background when Sonny and Julian picnic in Central Park. This scene was deleted after 9/11.

[edit] Soundtrack

The film won a BMI Film Music Award. The soundtrack included the following:

This song or music-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

From the official soundtrack:

[edit] Quotes

  • Julian: "I can wipe my own ass."
  • Julian: -When he has to leave- I won't play the kangaroo song anymore!
  • Sonny: You sleep with that guy with old balls, ewww gross!!
  • Sonny: Rumpelstiltskin is a good man!
  • (Julian is urinating on a wall)
Julian: "Why Aren't you goin' too?"
Sonny: "Because only you and my grandpa go go every 30 seconds"
(Two women stare and Sonny notices)
"Sonny": "Hi! What's ya name? He'll write on the wall, mind ya own bussiness."
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