Sandler broke into film with small parts in such comedies as Shakes the Clown (1991); Coneheads (1993), which was based on an SNL sketch; and Mixed Nuts (1994). He established himself as a star with Billy Madison (1995), the first of a number of movies he cowrote; in it he played...
Adam Sandler, American comedian known for his portrayal of infantile but endearing characters. His popular films included Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), and Punch-Drunk Love (2002). Read more about Sandler’s life and ca
Actor, comedian, and musician Adam Sandler was a cast member on 'Saturday Night Live' and is the star of such films as 'Punch-Drunk Love' and 'The Wedding Singer.'
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Sandler surprised viewers when he took a dramatic turn in this romantic comedy-drama, playing an entrepreneur with severe social anxiety who falls in love with a woman, but is faced with defending himself against thieves trying to steal his identity and extort him. One of his few films to re...
The first, Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh, premiered in 2018. That special was directed by Steven Brill, who worked with Sandler on the films Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, The Do-Over and Sandy Wexler (and later followed it with maybe the most underrated of Sandler’s Netflix comedies, Hubie ...
What is the best Adam Sandler movie? The definition of what a good Sandler movie is can be tricky to nail down. We rewatched them all to offer our ranking.
more critical attention. Further, I argue that we should actively read Sandler's films using Seidman's idea of comedian comedy and that focusing attention on such comedies' tensions with narrative film enable us to direct our critical attention on the ambivalences present in Sandler's movies. Hi...
Adam Sandler has never been a critical darling. This information is practically a cliché; even the movies now regarded as his early, funny ones didn’t exactly receive glowing notices during their original runs, and as the audience that enjoyed his early comedies aged into possible critical-esta...
Withthe release of "Blended" this weekend, we wondered what David Edelstein, film critic for "Sunday Morning," NPR and New York Magazine, thought of other Adam Sandler comedies? His best comments, perhaps, were directed towards Paul Thomas Anderson's"Punch-Drunk Love"(2002), a most uncharact...