A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 6 nominations
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
- Derek Wallace
- (as Larry Gilliard Jr.)
Jennifer Taylor
- Rita
- (as Jennifer Bini Taylor)
James Bates Jr.
- West Mississippi Lineman
- (as James Bates)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaThis film is the highest-grossing sports comedy of all time, while another Adam Sandler vehicle, The Longest Yard (2005), is the second highest-grossing sports comedy of all time.
- GoofsLouisiana's local law enforcement is shown wearing uniforms that say "County Sheriff". Louisiana doesn't have counties; it has parishes.
- Quotes
Bobby Boucher: My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
- Alternate versionsIn the theatrical version, the note Bobby gets early in the film reads "eat shit and kill yourself." For edited-for-TV versions the note reads "I hope you choke on your dandruff."
- SoundtracksBorn on the Bayou
Written by John Fogerty
Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Courtesy of Fantasy Inc.
Featured review
I have to admit: this Adam Sandler no-brainer is hilarious, just had me laughing right from the start. I'd rank it in my top ten funny movies of my collection and it features one of my favorite characters in film: Bobby Boucher Jr., a heckuva lot nicer guy than Sandler's "Happy Gilmore."
"Bobby" is about as innocent and a gentle-natured a guy as you'll find this side of Forrest Gump. You can't help but root for him, and that's the idea. What the film basically involves is another "Revenge Of The Nerds" theme except it's "nerd "- singular - as the picked-on waterboy turning the tables on the football jocks. Interesting to once again see Jerry Reed, whom I haven't seen much of since his days in "Smokey And The Bandit." He has much fatter face but everything else looked the same. Then there is Henry Winkler, "The Fonz" who now is the opposite: a guy with a terrible inferiority complex. All the characters in here are wildly exaggerated.
This cartoon-like comedy may not be high-brow, but so what? It's not totally low- brow either, but I do wonder why modern filmmakers cannot seem to make a comedy without all the sex references and the profanity. Nonetheless, Sandler's Cajun accent, his strange-looking-but pretty girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) and crazy mother (Kathy Bates, in the funniest role she's ever played) are all great fun to watch.
It's silly, particularly the ridiculous climactic football game, but then this movie is hardly to be taken seriously. It's all absurd humor, and 90 minutes was just right amount of time for it.
"Bobby" is about as innocent and a gentle-natured a guy as you'll find this side of Forrest Gump. You can't help but root for him, and that's the idea. What the film basically involves is another "Revenge Of The Nerds" theme except it's "nerd "- singular - as the picked-on waterboy turning the tables on the football jocks. Interesting to once again see Jerry Reed, whom I haven't seen much of since his days in "Smokey And The Bandit." He has much fatter face but everything else looked the same. Then there is Henry Winkler, "The Fonz" who now is the opposite: a guy with a terrible inferiority complex. All the characters in here are wildly exaggerated.
This cartoon-like comedy may not be high-brow, but so what? It's not totally low- brow either, but I do wonder why modern filmmakers cannot seem to make a comedy without all the sex references and the profanity. Nonetheless, Sandler's Cajun accent, his strange-looking-but pretty girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) and crazy mother (Kathy Bates, in the funniest role she's ever played) are all great fun to watch.
It's silly, particularly the ridiculous climactic football game, but then this movie is hardly to be taken seriously. It's all absurd humor, and 90 minutes was just right amount of time for it.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Feb 26, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Cầu Thủ Xách Nước
- Filming locations
- Stetson University - 421 N. Woodland Boulevard, DeLand, Florida, USA(Inside and outside shots)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $23,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $161,491,646
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,414,071
- Nov 8, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $185,991,646
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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