Adam Sandler Is Past Due for a Critical Reevaluation, So Here It Is

Big Daddy (1999)

Adam Sandler
IMAGE BY: Columbia Pictures

40% critic score / 74% audience score

When a little boy shows up on his doorstep claiming to be the biological son of his roommate, 30-year-old Sonny Koufax takes him in as his own in order to impress his girlfriend.

Rotten Tomatoes says: “[Adam Sandler’s] charm isn’t enough to make up for Big Daddy’s jarring shifts between crude humor and mawkish sentimentality.”

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