A lazy law school graduate adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned.A lazy law school graduate adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned.A lazy law school graduate adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 14 nominations total
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- TriviaAdam Sandler's wife, Jackie Sandler, played the waitress in the bar that gets Julian (Cole and Dylan Sprouse) a root beer. This started the tradition of having her cameo in almost every Adam Sandler film.
- GoofsAt the end of the trial, Corinne's shocked reaction upon learning that Julian belongs to her boyfriend (Jon/Stewart/Kevin Gerrity) makes no sense. Throughout the trial, the judge makes reference to Julian as "Julian McGrath, aka Julian Gerrity" and several statements were made regarding "Sonny Koufax impersonating Kevin Gerrity" so there is no way that Corinne wouldn't have put the pieces together to realize what the situation was.
- Crazy creditsThis movie is dedicated to our fathers. Thanks for putting up with all our crap. We love you.
- Alternate versionsWhen aired on TV, some scenes were altered, like:
- When Sonny finds out McDonalds stopped serving breakfast at 10:30, his scream of "horseshit!" was changed to "Noooo!";
- The word 'ass' was changed to 'butt'; the word 'shit' was altered or worked around;
- The names of Sonny's snacks when he's watching hockey were blurred out; Sonny's line of "the money I got in the cab accident is kicking ass in the stock market" was altered.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Clock (2010)
- SoundtracksPassing Me By
(LP Version)
Written by Slim Kid 3 (as Trevant Hardson), Imani (as Emandu Wilcox), Booty Brown, Fatlip (as Derek Stewart), J. Swift, Steve Boone, and John Sebastian
Performed by The Pharcyde
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Featured review
To those who are understanding, this movie is terrible.
I expected it to be.If you're wondering why I saw it,I had some notion that it would be just a cut above Sandler's ordinary material and might invoke some laughs - I was wrong. Sandler has never invoked any laughs in his movies, and never will. If there's ever a scene where, say, he gets creamed after provoking some strong person, that might be funny. But things haven't changed, all his personas remain the same. i.e., acting like a spoiled 5 year old, yelling, screaming, talking like a little baby, and making fun of people, etc.
The film portrays him as a Law student, which is probably the funniest thing in the whole movie (Not laugh with funny, laugh at funny!) He is left to take care of his roommate's kid, and I'll let you find out what happens from there. He obviously won't drive him to pre-school on time. He obviously won't teach him to be a patriotic neo-conservative, and the movie will obviously go by with its share of bathroom and other humor relating to bodily functions. Too bad it wasn't funny. I learned my lesson from this movie, which is avoid a film with Sander on the credits. I don't care if it's a sequel to Braveheart, time is valuable!
One last thing I wanted to point out was how Steve Buscemi ended up in this movie. He's the guy you always see in indy-films. Is he friends with Sandler? Was it a gambling debt? Who knows!!!!
I expected it to be.If you're wondering why I saw it,I had some notion that it would be just a cut above Sandler's ordinary material and might invoke some laughs - I was wrong. Sandler has never invoked any laughs in his movies, and never will. If there's ever a scene where, say, he gets creamed after provoking some strong person, that might be funny. But things haven't changed, all his personas remain the same. i.e., acting like a spoiled 5 year old, yelling, screaming, talking like a little baby, and making fun of people, etc.
The film portrays him as a Law student, which is probably the funniest thing in the whole movie (Not laugh with funny, laugh at funny!) He is left to take care of his roommate's kid, and I'll let you find out what happens from there. He obviously won't drive him to pre-school on time. He obviously won't teach him to be a patriotic neo-conservative, and the movie will obviously go by with its share of bathroom and other humor relating to bodily functions. Too bad it wasn't funny. I learned my lesson from this movie, which is avoid a film with Sander on the credits. I don't care if it's a sequel to Braveheart, time is valuable!
One last thing I wanted to point out was how Steve Buscemi ended up in this movie. He's the guy you always see in indy-films. Is he friends with Sandler? Was it a gambling debt? Who knows!!!!
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- Un papá genial
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- Budget
- $34,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $163,479,795
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $41,536,370
- Jun 27, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $234,801,895
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