Fresh
This light yet earnest drama starring Adam Sandler deals openly with one of the most insidious elements in popular filmmaking -- the male screenwriter's relationship with his own father.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Big Daddy
Nature called. Look who answered.
1999 · 1h 33m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Dennis Dugan
Overview
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Director and cast
- Dennis Dugan Director
- Adam Sandler as Sonny Koufax
- Joey Lauren Adams as Layla Maloney
- Kristy Swanson as Vanessa
- Cole Sprouse as Julian 'Frankenstien' McGrath
- Jon Stewart as Kevin Gerrity
- Dylan Sprouse as Julian McGrath
- Leslie Mann as Corinne Maloney
- Allen Covert as Phil D'Amato
- Rob Schneider as Delivery Guy
- Peter Dante Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Funny-sweet, understand, not bleccchh sweet.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
Rotten
Worst of all is the way Sandler wants to have it both ways: to muck around in gross-out humor one minute and then turn schmaltzy the next minute with some fraudulent business about how much he loves the kid.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
How's this for a novel complaint: Big Daddy just isn't stupid enough.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
There's no doubt Sandler is talented, but if he persists in believing that, like Elvis, his presence alone covers a multitude of omissions and inconsistencies, he will squander his gift and make a series of forgettable films in the process.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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