Plot
A football team water boy discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.
Release Year: 1998
Rating: 5.8/10 (58,846 voted)
Critic's Score: 41/100
Director:
Frank Coraci
Stars: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler
Storyline Bobby Boucher is the lowly water boy for a college football team, until the coach discovers his amazing talent for tackling people much bigger than him. He signs the Water Boy as the new star player.
Writers: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Cast: Adam Sandler
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Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.
Kathy Bates
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Helen 'Mama' Boucher
Fairuza Balk
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Vicki Vallencourt
Henry Winkler
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Coach Klein
Jerry Reed
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Coach Red Beaulieu
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
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Derek Wallace
(as Larry Gilliard Jr.)
Blake Clark
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Farmer Fran
Peter Dante
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Gee Grenouille
Jonathan Loughran
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Lyle Robideaux
Al Whiting
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Casey Bugge
Clint Howard
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Paco
Allen Covert
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Walter
Rob Schneider
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Townie
Todd Holland
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Greg Meaney
Robert Kokol
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Professor
Taglines:
The Water-Boy is The Devil!
Release Date: 6 November 1998
Filming Locations: Citrus Bowl - 1610 W. Church Street, Orlando, Florida, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $23,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $39,414,071
(USA)
(8 November 1998)
(2664 Screens)
Gross: $161,487,252
(USA)
(18 April 1999)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Director Cameo:
[Frank Coraci]
Bobby's father Robert.
Goofs:
Errors in geography:
At the beginning of the movie they show Altell Stadium, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but in the filming locations, Jacksonville is not listed.
Quotes: Dan Fouts:
The waterboy just needed some water! Brent Musburger:
Wow Dan, did you come up with that all by yourself? Dan Fouts:
Shut up, Brent.
User Review
Revenge Of The Cajun Nerd
Rating: 9/10
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.
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