Taglines: Nature called. Look who answered.
Big Daddy movie storyline. Immature 32-year-old bachelor slacker Sonny Koufax lives in New York City and refuses to take on adult responsibility. Despite having a law degree, he refuses to take the bar exam, works one day a week as a toll booth attendant and lives off a sizeable legal settlement from a minor accident.
His girlfriend, Vanessa, threatens to break up with him unless he grows up. His roommate, Kevin Gerrity, proposes to his podiatrist girlfriend Corinne Maloney before he leaves for China for his law firm, and she accepts. Sonny constantly teases Corinne, especially about her former occupation at Hooters.
The next day, Sonny wakes up to find 5-year-old Julian McGrath abandoned at their apartment. A written explanation says that Julian’s mother is no longer able to care for him and that Kevin is his biological father. Sonny assures Kevin that he will look after Julian until Kevin returns from China. In order to win Vanessa back, Sonny introduces her to Julian. However, he discovers that she is now dating Sid, a much older man who is more motivated and intelligent and has a “5-year plan.”
Posing as Kevin, Sonny takes Julian to his social worker Arthur Brooks, telling him that Julian should return to his mother. However, Brooks informs Sonny that Julian’s mother died of cancer. Sonny then decides to raise Julian his own way. As such, the boy nicknames himself Frankenstein and also helps Sonny find a new girlfriend in Corinne’s lawyer sister Layla.
Brooks finds a foster home for Julian and leaves messages for Sonny, but is suspicious when Sonny does not answer. At a meeting at Julian’s school, the teacher is shocked by the terrible habits Sonny has allowed Julian to develop, causing Sonny to rethink his parenting methods. He turns himself and Julian around, but then Brooks arrives to find out Sonny impersonated Kevin and Julian is taken away.
Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler and the Sprouse twins. The film was produced by Robert Simonds and released on June 25, 1999, by Columbia Pictures, where it opened #1 at the box office with a $41,536,370 first weekend[1] as well as a score of 41% on Metacritic.[2] It was Sandler’s last film before starting his production company, Happy Madison Productions, his first film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and his highest-grossing film until Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015).
Big Daddy (1999)
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Leslie Mann, Rob Schneider, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Joseph Bologna, Jonathan Loughran, Peter Dante
Screenplay by: Steve Franks, Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Production Design by: Perry Andelin Blake
Cinematography by: Theo van de Sande
Film Editing by: Jeff Gourson
Costume Design by: Ellen Lutter
Set Decoration by: Leslie Bloom
Art Direction by: Rick Butler
Music by: Teddy Castellucci
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and some crude humor.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: June 25, 1999
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