What's Adam Sandler's best movie?

The Best Adam Sandler Movies of All Time
  • Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
  • The WaterBoy (1998)
  • The Wedding Singer (1998)
  • Billy Madison (1995)
  • Mr. Deeds (2002)
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
  • Grown Ups (2010) & Grown Ups 2 (2013)
  • 50 First Dates (2004)
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What is the #1 Adam Sandler movie?

1. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
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What is Adam Sandler's most famous role?

Adam Sandler's 15 Most Iconic Characters
  • 8 Michael Newman – Click.
  • 7 Sonny Koufax – Big Daddy.
  • 6 Robbie Hart – The Wedding Singer.
  • 5 Barry Egan – Punch-Drunk Love.
  • 4 Bobby Boucher – The Waterboy.
  • 3 Howard Ratner – Uncut Gems.
  • 2 Billy Madison – Billy Madison.
  • 1 Happy Gilmore – Happy Gilmore.
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What is Adam Sandler's biggest achievement?

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian and actor. Primarily a comedic leading actor in film and television, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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What made Adam Sandler famous?

In 1990, Lorne Michaels hired Adam Sandler for “Saturday Night Live.” Sandler worked as a writer before becoming a cast member and became famous for singing and playing characters like “Opera Man.”
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Top 10 Adam Sandler Movies

How old was Adam Sandler in Waterboy?

Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is a 31-year-old, socially inept, stuttering, simpleton water boy living in Louisiana who rides a lawn mower to and from work, and has hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and excessive sheltering by his overbearing and domineering mother, Helen (Kathy Bates).
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What movie made Adam Sandler rich?

It was after his surprise 1995 ouster from SNL, however, that Sandler really hit it big as a movie star with the surprise smash hit Billy Madison, which made $26 million on a $10 million budget.
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Who helped Adam Sandler get famous?

While working at a comedy club in L.A., he was "discovered" by Dennis Miller, who recommended him to Saturday Night Live (1975) producer Lorne Michaels and told him that Sandler had a big talent.
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What is Adam Sandler's favorite sport?

A Brief History of Adam Sandler's Lifelong Love for Basketball.
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What were Adam Sandler's first two movies?

Adam Sandler Movies List
  • Going Overboard (1989) R | 99 min | Comedy. ...
  • Shakes the Clown (1991) R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama. ...
  • Coneheads (1993) PG | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi. ...
  • Airheads (1994) PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Music. ...
  • Mixed Nuts (1994) ...
  • Billy Madison (1995) ...
  • Happy Gilmore (1996) ...
  • Bulletproof (1996)
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What did Netflix pay Adam Sandler?

The project is the latest in Sandler's current $250 million Netflix deal. The actor-comedian has produced a rather astonishing eight titles for the streaming service, ranging from the somewhat notorious Western parody The Ridiculous Six to dramedy Sandy Wexler.
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Does Adam Sandler have a Netflix special?

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Who found Adam Sandler?

While working at a comedy club in L.A., he was "discovered" by Dennis Miller, who recommended him to "Saturday Night Live" (1975) producer Lorne Michaels and told him that Sandler had a big talent.
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Why is Adam Sandler so rich?

Adam Sandler's net worth is high because of the box office success of many of his movies for more than two decades, as well as his Netflix deal which is worth at least USD 250 million.
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What did Adam Sandler do as a kid?

According to the segment, Sandler grew up the youngest of four children. An avid Little League baseball player, he grew up idolizing his father, a electrical contractor with a big personality who who spent his free time coaching his kid's baseball teams.
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What is Adam Sandler's least popular movie?

Results of 3,286 votes:
  • 1,916. Jack and Jill (2011)
  • 465. Little Nicky (2000)
  • 331. That's My Boy (2012)
  • 295. Grown Ups 2 (2013)
  • 160. Grown Ups (2010)
  • 119. Big Daddy (1999)
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Who is the highest paid actor?

Highest annual earnings

Dwayne Johnson was the highest-paid actor in 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Julia Roberts was the highest-paid actress in 1998, 1999, and 2000.
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Did Adam Sandler write any of his movies?

Excluding some early work and the straight acting gigs with more serious directors, Sandler has written or rewritten essentially every movie he's been in (though he often doesn't take a writing credit) and served as an executive producer on all of them since The Waterboy.
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Why does Adam Sandler use the same actors?

Take Grown Ups for an example. Sandler was inspired to write the movie because of his friends and the cast is made up of his - not just on-screen but real life - friends, including David Spade, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and Steve Buscemi.
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What movie set did Adam Sandler meet his wife?

But there's one person Adam has had the pleasure of working with over the years that might be less familiar to audiences: his wife, Jackie Titone Sandler, whom he met on the set of Big Daddy in 1999.
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