Adam Sandler
| Adam Sandler | |
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Sandler receiving his star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2011 |
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| Born | Adam Richard Sandler September 9, 1966 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Tisch School of the Arts |
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| Political party | Republican[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Jackie Sandler (m. 2003) |
| Children | 2 |
| Comedy career | |
| Medium | Stand-up, film, television |
| Website | adamsandler |
Sandler has released five comedy albums in his career. They're All Gonna Laugh at You! (1993) and What the Hell Happened to Me? (1996) are both certified double-platinum. In 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison Productions.
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Early life
Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966,[4][5] to Judith "Judy" (née Levine), a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler (1935-2003), an electrical engineer.[4] His family is Jewish and descends from Russian immigrants on both sides.[6] He grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire after moving there at the age of six.[7] He attended Manchester Central High School. As a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a popular Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988.[8]Career
Acting career
Sandler at 2002 Cannes Film Festival
In 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi. He starred in Billy Madison (1995) playing a grown man repeating grades 1–12 to earn back his father's respect and the right to inherit his father's multimillion-dollar hotel empire; the film received negative reviews. He followed this film with Bulletproof (1996), and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things (1998) but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy (1998), one of his first hits.
Although his earliest films did not receive critical praise, he started to receive more positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Ebert's review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts and characters with no development.[11] Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe) and Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007), a drama about a man who loses his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a friendship with his old college roommate (Don Cheadle).
He starred alongside friend Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), and headlined You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008). The film was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, it was directed by Dennis Dugan.
Sandler in Berlin 2009
In 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatow's third directorial feature Funny People. The film was released on July 31, 2009.[13] Following the release of Funny People, it, along with Punch-Drunk Love were cited in the June 2010 announcement that Sandler was one of 135 people (including 20 actors) invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[14]
Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. Sandler and Dickie Roberts scribe Fred Wolf wrote the script and Dennis Dugan directed the film.[15]
Sandler starred with Jennifer Aniston in the 2011 romantic comedy film Just Go with It. Sandler also voiced a capuchin monkey in Kevin James' Zookeeper, released on July 8, 2011.[16] In 2012, he starred in That's My Boy, as a man who fathered a son (Andy Samberg) with his teacher in high school.
Sandler starred with Drew Barrymore in the Warner Bros. romantic comedy Blended, which was filmed in South Africa, and was released on May 23, 2014.
In 2013, he guest starred in the Disney Channel Original Series Jessie as himself. He and Cameron Boyce previously worked together in Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2. The episode is titled "Punched Dumped Love". Sandler co-starred in the drama film Men, Women & Children (2014), directed by Jason Reitman.[17][18] He was considered for the voice of Rocket Raccoon in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy but Bradley Cooper was cast instead.[19]
In 2015, Sandler starred in the Western comedy film The Ridiculous 6, distributed by Netflix. Despite being universally panned by critics,[20] On January 6, 2016, it was announced by Netflix that the film had been viewed more times in 30 days than any other movie in Netflix history.[21]
Sandler's recent comedy films, including Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, have received strongly negative reviews.[22] In reviewing the latter, critic Mark Olsen of The Los Angeles Times remarked that Sandler had become the antithesis of Judd Apatow; he was instead "the white Tyler Perry: smart enough to know better, savvy enough to do it anyway, lazy enough not to care."[23]
He returned to dramatic territory in 2017 with The Meyerowitz Stories, with his performance receiving acclaim from critics.[24]
Happy Madison Productions
Sandler at a press conference for Click in 2005
Others who frequently appear in Sandler films include David Spade, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, John Turturro, Peter Dante, Allen Covert, Jonathan Loughran and Jon Lovitz.
In 2014, Netflix announced a four-movie deal with Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions.[27]
The company is located on the Sony/Columbia Pictures lot in Culver City, California.
Public image
Sandler has been referenced multiple times in various media, including in the TV shows The Simpsons in the episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love",[28] in Family Guy in the episode "Stew-Roids",[29] and in South Park in the episode "You're Getting Old".[30] He was also referenced in the video game Half-Life: Opposing Force.[31]Personal life
On June 22, 2003, Sandler married actress Jacqueline Titone.[32] Titone had converted to Sandler's religion, Judaism, in 2000.[33][34] She makes frequent appearances in her husband's Happy Madison films. The couple have two daughters: Sadie (born 2006)[35] and Sunny (born 2008).[36]In 2007, Sandler made a $1 million donation to the Boys and Girls Club in his hometown, Manchester, New Hampshire.[37] The same year, he donated $2,100 to former New York City Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.[38]
Filmography
This is a partial list of Sandler's film work. For the complete list, see Adam Sandler filmography.- Going Overboard (1989)
- Shakes the Clown (1991)
- Coneheads (1993)
- Airheads (1994)
- Mixed Nuts (1994)
- Billy Madison (1995)
- Happy Gilmore (1996)
- Bulletproof (1996)
- The Wedding Singer (1998)
- The Waterboy (1998)
- Big Daddy (1999)
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
- Little Nicky (2000)
- The Animal (2001)
- Mr. Deeds (2002)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Anger Management (2003)
- Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
- 50 First Dates (2004)
- Spanglish (2004)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
- Click (2006)
- Reign Over Me (2007)
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
- Bedtime Stories (2008)
- Funny People (2009)
- Grown Ups (2010)
- Just Go with It (2011)
- Jack and Jill (2011)
- That's My Boy (2012)
- Hotel Transylvania (2012)
- Grown Ups 2 (2013)
- Blended (2014)
- Men, Women & Children (2014)
- Pixels (2015)
- Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
- The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
- The Do-Over (2016)
- Sandy Wexler (2017)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Discography
Sandler's handprints and shoeprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 2008
- Studio albums
| Year | Title | Certification |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | They're All Gonna Laugh at You! | 2× Platinum[39] |
| 1996 | What the Hell Happened to Me? | 2× Platinum[39] |
| 1997 | What's Your Name? | Gold[39] |
| 1999 | Stan and Judy's Kid | Gold[39] |
| 2004 | Shhh...Don't Tell |
Awards and nominations
References
Full name, Adam Richard Sandler; born September 9, 1966 (some sources cite 1964)...
There is a hidden message on the upper skybox texture in the V-22 osprey g-man sequence. It reads "HACK HACK HACK ALL DAY LONG. HACK HACK HACK WHILE I SING THIS SONG". This is a reference to the Adam Sandler song "The Beating Of A High School Janitor".
- "RIAA - Gold & Platinum - Sandler, Adam". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
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