The actor-turn-bad movie director-turn-Adam Sandler director.
Problem Child (1990) -- John Ritter tries
real hard, but nothing can make a movie about a brat with a bow
tie good. Horrible, horrible... and I have had the misfortune of
seeing it several times thanks to my parents' love of this kind
of movie. (See Brian Levant for
the sequel, Problem Child 2.)
Happy Gilmore
(1996) -- One of those great Sandler/Herlihy movies, so funny in its absurdity
sometimes that it hurts.
Big Daddy
(1999) -- I thought it was a little too sappy the first time I saw it -- being
used to stuff like Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and The Waterboy -- but seeing
it again later I realized it's a sweet movie with some genuinely funny and even
touching scenes. The kid(s) (they're twins) in the movie does a rare job
of being cut yet not annoying.
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