Adam SandlerFilmography

Grown Ups

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade

Synopsis: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade star as five high school chums who reunite on the Fourth of July after 30 years of separation in this Columbia Pictures production. You Don't Mess With the Zohan's Dennis Dugan directs from a script by Sandler and Fred Wolf. Salma Hayek Read More

Born to Be a Star

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff, Don Johnson, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Adam Sandler produces Columbia Pictures comedy starring Nick Swardson as a schlub from nowhere who heads out West to become a porn star after finding out his parents were ones themselves. The Hot Chick's Tom Brady directs from a script by Sandler and Swardson. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Funny People

Actors: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup Read More

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays, Raini Rodriguez, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: A New Jersey rent-a-cop gets his moment to shine as the holidays approach and Santa's little helpers stage a coup at the local shopping mall in this comedy starring King of Queens' Kevin James. Paul Blart (James) is a single suburban dad attempting to make ends meet by working as a mall security Read More

Shortcut

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Drew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco, Katrina Bowden, Raymond Barry

Synopsis: The first release from Scary Madison - the genre division of Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production house - director Nicholas Goossen's small town frightener serves as a shocking wake-up call to teenage trespassers everywhere. High school senior Derek (Drew Seeley) was adjusting to life in a new Read More

Bedtime Stories

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a hotel handyman who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The House Bunny

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee

Synopsis: When Playboy playmate Shelley (Anna Faris) is unceremoniously evicted from Hugh Hefner's lavish mansion in order to make room for some younger beauties, her quest for employment finds her serving as den mother to an unpopular L.A. sorority in this Happy Madison production directed by Fred Wolf. Colin Hanks Read More

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Judd Apatow teams up with his former roommate Adam Sandler to write a star comedy vehicle for the actor in You Don't Mess With the Zohan, the tale of an Israeli commando who fakes his own death so he can follow his dream -- to be a hairstylist in New York City. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Read More

Strange Wilderness

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott

Synopsis: A pair of animal enthusiasts desperate to boost the ratings of their failing television series "Strange Wilderness" set out for the Andes in search of the elusive Bigfoot in this comedy directed by Fred Wolf and starring Justin Long, Steve Zahn, Kevin Heffernan, and Ernest Borgnine. Peter Gaulke (Zahn Read More

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: When two testosterone-fueled firemen attempt to register as domestic partners in order to bypass the bureaucratic red tape preventing one of them from naming his own two children as his life-insurance beneficiaries, their low-key ruse turns into headline news in this quirky matrimonial comedy Read More

Reign Over Me

Actors: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to Read More

Comedy Club Greats

Actors: Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Attell

Synopsis: Everyone loves to laugh, and with this release featuring classic stand-up routines by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Dave Attell, and Max Alexander comedy lovers can experience all the fun of a night at their favorite comedy club while relaxing in the comfort of their own living room. ~ Jason Read More

Rules of Engagement [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement chronicled the rituals of dating, marriage and commitment, as seen through the eyes of two couples and their single friend. Former Dawson's Creek costars Adam Hudson and Biance Kajlich were respectively cast as Adam and Jennifer, who became engaged in the very Read More

Click

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff

Synopsis: A workaholic architect, frustrated in his job but determined to make a better life for his family, is bestowed with a powerful universal remote that allows him more control over his life than he ever knew possible in director Frank Coraci's high-concept fantasy comedy. On the surface, Michael Read More

The Benchwarmers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Craig Kilborn

Synopsis: Three guys with little athletic ability strike a blow for everyone chosen last at recess in this comedy. Clark (Jon Heder), Gus (Rob Schneider), and Richie (David Spade) are three geeky guys who have spent most of their lives being humiliated by bullies and taunted by people with greater hand-eye Read More

Grandma's Boy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Read More

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé, Til Schweiger, Hanna Verboom

Synopsis: Women of the world beware -- the world's least likely male pleasure machine is back in business and breaching international boundaries in this sequel to the comedy hit Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for his career as a lover-for-hire, Deuce (once again played by Rob Schneider Read More

The Longest Yard

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, James Cromwell

Synopsis: One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is Read More

Spanglish

Actors: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce

Synopsis: A Hispanic woman and her young daughter are thrown into the middle of a well-to-do but remarkably dysfunctional family in this comedy drama from writer and director James L. Brooks. Flor (Paz Vega) is a single mother who has struggled to support her daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) working as a Read More

50 First Dates

Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Re-teaming Adam Sandler with Drew Barrymore, his co-star from The Wedding Singer, as well as Peter Segal, his director on Anger Management, Fifty First Dates finds the funnyman playing veterinarian Henry Roth. More than content with a life of one-night-stands, Henry decides to give up his Read More

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Spade, Mary McCormack, Jon Lovitz, Craig Bierko, Jenna Boyd

Synopsis: In keeping with his background in television sitcoms, Sam Weisman directs the cameo-filled comedy Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Dickie Roberts (David Spade) was a child actor on the hit TV show "The Glimmer Gang" and remains remembered for a particular catch phrase. Now in his thirties, he Read More

Anger Management

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzman, Allen Covert, Lynne Thigpen, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro

Synopsis: A man comes face to face with the rage he didn't know he had in this comedy. Dave Buznick (Adam Sandler) is an even-tempered businessman who, after a series of strange misunderstandings on an airline flight, finds himself accused of air rage. A judge sentences Dave to undergo anger management Read More

The Hot Chick

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian Olsen, Robert Davi

Synopsis: A carefree young woman wakes up to discover her greatest nightmare is a reality -- she's become trapped in the body of Rob Schneider -- in this shape-shifting comedy. Jessica (Rachel McAdams) is a beautiful teenager whose life would be the envy of any high school student -- she's head of the Read More

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Rob Schneider

Synopsis: Come celebrate the joy and togetherness of the Hanukkah season with Adam Sandler -- yeah, that Adam Sandler -- in this raucous animated comedy written and produced in collaboration with the noted funnyman. Davey Stone (voice of Adam Sandler) is a twentysomething man with a short temper and a Read More

Punch-Drunk Love

Actors: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Synopsis: Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star in Punch-Drunk Love, an odd romantic comedy from gifted young director Paul Thomas Anderson. Sandler plays Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, who falls in love with Lena Read More

Master of Disguise

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erick Avari, Bo Derek, Robert Loggia, Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin

Synopsis: Dana Carvey ventures into the world of PG-rated, family-oriented entertainment as star and co-writer of this light adventure comedy, which requires the actor to assume more than three dozen different identities. Carvey's primary role in Master of Disguise, however, is that of Pistachio Disguisey Read More

Mr. Deeds

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, John Turturro

Synopsis: One of Frank Capra's best-loved stories gets a modernized and wildly slapstick reinterpretation in this romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler. When Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a remarkably wealthy media magnate, dies with neither a wife nor children, the question on the lips of most of his Read More

Biography: Saturday Night Live

The Animal

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Ed Asner, Michael Caton

Synopsis: Former Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider stars in this comedy as Marvin Mage, a wimpy nebbish whose lifelong dreams of becoming a police officer are thwarted by his diminutive stature. But when Marvin is critically injured in an auto wreck, deranged scientist Dr. Wilder (Michael Caton) Read More

Joe Dirt

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joe Don Baker, David Spade, Dennis Miller, Brittany Daniel, Kid Rock, Adam Beach, Jaime Pressly, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: As the title character of Joe Dirt, David Spade plays a "white trash" janitor at an L.A. radio station, whose mullet hairdo is just one of many personal oddities that make him the object of much ridicule. And the sanitation gig is just the most recent of Joe's many incarnations during a tumultuous Read More

Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians, Vol. 5

Synopsis: Like its predecessors, this installment to the popular Laughing Out Loud series offers viewers the experience of a standup comedy club from the comfort of home. This production features a variety of comedians performing some of their funniest bits; among those included are Jerry Seinfeld, Kelsey Read More

Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Like its predecessors, this installment to the popular Laughing Out Loud series offers viewers the experience of a standup comedy club from the comfort of home. This production features a variety of comedians performing some of their funniest bits; among those included are Adam Sandler, Jeff Read More

The Concert For New York City

Synopsis: In the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, many figures in the entertainment community stepped forward to offer their talents to raise money towards relief efforts for the victims and their survivors. On October 20, 2001, some of the biggest names in Read More

Little Nicky

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: The youngest child of the family often has the most problems -- so why should things be different for the Prince of Darkness and his offspring? Satan (Harvey Keitel) is considering retirement, and is pondering which of his sons should take over the family business -- ambitious Adrian (Rhys Ifans) Read More

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

Big Daddy

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Josh Mostel, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Prospective parents everywhere, meet the world's least likely paternal role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Daddy, Sandler plays 30-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities; he works one day a week as a tollbooth collector, and spends the Read More

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler

Actors: Adam Sandler

Synopsis: Adam Sandler's work on Saturday Night Live prepared him for the big time. Now a highly successful screen actor, Adam Sandler finely honed his comedic skills on the stage of the Saturday Night Live set. The producers have compiled a sampling of Sandler's most amusing characters on this Read More

The Waterboy

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed

Synopsis: As with his previous films, comedian Adam Sandler and writing partner Tim Herlihy have conceived a simple premise, character, and title, and peppered their creation with visual sight gags. The story concerns Bobby Boucher, a Louisiana-born-and-bred kid living in the swamps with his overbearing Read More

Dirty Work

Actors: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles

Synopsis: Shortly after leaving the "Weekend Update" anchor slot on Saturday Night Live, Norm Macdonald resurfaced in this comedy about smart-aleck Mitch Weaver who teams with buddy Sam McKenna (Artie Lange of Mad TV). They open a revenge-for-hire business (Dirty Work Inc.) in order to raise $50,000 so Read More

Saturday Night Live: Bad Boys

Actors: Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock

Synopsis: This collection of classic sketches from the television variety series Saturday Night Live features some of the show's most outrageous performers at their envelope-pushing best. Highlights include Chris Rock as militant talk show host Nat X, Adam Sandler as Operaman, David Spade with the Hollywood Read More

The Wedding Singer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen Covert, Matthew Glave, Ellen Albertini Dow

Synopsis: Mousse up your hair and pull your Missing Persons records out of mothballs for this romantic comedy set in that era of questionable fashion decisions, the '80s. In 1985, Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is a vocalist whose rock band stubbornly refuses to get off the ground. In the meantime, he makes a Read More

Bulletproof

Actors: Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan, Kristen Wilson

Synopsis: This post-modern comic variation on The Defiant Ones concerns Keats (Damon Wayans), an undercover police detective trying to get the goods on crime kingpin Frank Colton (James Caan). Keats poses as a crook to make friends with one of Colton's underlings, a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Read More

Happy Gilmore

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers

Synopsis: Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the Read More

Billy Madison

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: Master of infantilism Adam Sandler stars as the title character, an overgrown rich kid who wiles away his days poolside, swilling kegs of beer and appreciating fine nudie magazines such as "Drunk Chicks" -- that is, until his father (Darren McGavin) decides to test his mettle as future head of the Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 20

Actors: Morwenna Banks, Ellen Cleghorne, Chris Elliott, Chris Farley, Janeane Garofalo, Norm MacDonald, Michael McKean, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, David Spade

Mixed Nuts

Actors: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rita Wilson

Synopsis: A holiday comedy with dark overtones, Mixed Nuts presents a supposedly humorous look at the behind-the-scenes events at a crisis hotline on Christmas Eve. Philip (Steve Martin) runs Lifesavers, a Venice, California organization dedicated to helping the depressed and troubled. Unfortunately, Philip Read More

Airheads

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley

Synopsis: Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their Read More

Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Hank's Wedding

Synopsis: Love blinds a lonely sidekick on this episode of HBO's The Larry Sanders Show. Despite Hank's (Jeffrey Tambor) elation at the prospect of marrying a younger woman whom he has just met, his enthusiasm may be short-lived as Larry (Garry Shandling) attempts to decide whether he should reveal some Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 19

Actors: Ellen Cleghorne, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Melanie Hutsell, Michael McKean, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Julia Sweeney

Shakes the Clown

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Tom Kenny, Blake Clark, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, Florence Henderson

Synopsis: This black comedy chronicles the fall of one of the world's most unlovable clowns as he plies his trade and tries to survive in Palukaville a town where everyone is more or less a Bozo. Shakes loves women and more than that, he loves his booze. Like many of his painted peers, ol' Shakes likes to Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 18

Actors: Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, Julia Sweeney

Saturday Night Live: Season 17

Actors: Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Victoria Jackson, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Chris Rock, Julia Sweeney

Saturday Night Live: Season 16

Actors: Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, Dennis Miller, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon

Going Overboard

Actors: Adam Sandler

Synopsis: Two years before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler starred in this comedy as Shecky Moskowitz, who wants to get a job as a comedian on a cruise ship, but when that job is taken, signs on as a waiter instead, hoping fate will lend a hand. The cast also includes Burt Young, Peter Berg Read More

The Cosby Show: The Prom

Synopsis: Hoping to impress their prom dates--and to one-up their friend who has rented a limo for the occasion--Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), Denny (Troy Winbush) and Smitty (Adam Sandler) pool their resources and engage the services of a helicopter! Alas, the "big night" flight proves to be a disaster; in Read More

The Cosby Show: The Visit

Synopsis: An uncomfortable Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) tries to avoid visiting his friend Jake (Christopher Collet), who is hospitalized with cancer. Finally, Theo works up the courage to drop in on Jake, who uses humor and good cheer to make things easier for his friend--even though he himself isn't quite Read More

The Cosby Show: Dance Mania

Synopsis: Thanks to his mom Clair's connections, Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) manages to get hold of two tickets to the next taping of his favorite TV music show "Dance Mania", and takes his pal Cockroach (Carl Anthony Payne II in his final series appearance) along as guest. Unfortunately, only one of the Read More

The Cosby Show: The Locker Room

Synopsis: Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) is upset when his sister Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) accepts a date from his friend Lyle (Dennis Singletary), who has a habit of boasting about his "conquests" in the school locker room. Sure enough, the next day Lyle is claiming that he has "scored" with Vanessa, and Read More