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FilmPG-131999

Big Daddy

ComedyDrama

Directed by Dennis Dugan

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood. From TMDB

148 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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Big Daddy is a 1999 comedy drama film, directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams and Jon Stewart.

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2024

    The voice of a generation--actually of many generations. A brilliant actor. A trailblazer. And on Broadway, the original Troy Maxson in Fences and the greatest Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof I have ever seen. RIP James Earl Jones. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Robert Townsend's "The Meteor Man" opened in theaters today in 1993. Such a fun movie! Legendary cameos....Had Luther playing a gangsta.. a blonde Don Cheadle & Big Daddy Kane 🤣🤣

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    So you mean to tell me the first time I ever saw Olivia Nuzzi was when I went to see the Adam Sandler vehicle BIG DADDY in a movie theater in 1999????

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  • Jubbs McCoy @jubbsmccoy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    #MemoryMusic #MusicChallenge 19 / failure "Burn Hollywood Burn" (1990), Public Enemy feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane 🎬💥 i went to film school & wanted to work in Hollywood but failed in that endeavor, didn't really have the stomach for it 💥 f&ck Hollywood, man youtu.be/M7CT7bNSnbw?...

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  • C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2025

    A fun and true fact about my father is that I have seen him cry four times in my life. Three of them involved his granddaughter. The fourth was in a theater showing of the 1999 Adam Sandler film Big Daddy

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  • jab lung @mobute.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    This is a (not good!) time capsule, but one thing remains the same: Kevin Nash will absolutely sell out for whatever film role he's given, and Big Daddy Cool is the best part of this movie.

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  • LG pokeball @luianime88.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Day 1: Happy #BoxingGorillaDay and here to honor the day plus celebrating near the 10th anniversary of of my favorite animated animal film Sing and the reboot of Regular Show: A Boxing Match between Big Daddy vs Skips, The silverback send the yeti mouthpiece flying. Commission: @Nanothehedgehog

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  • HAUNTonic 👻 @huntonic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2025

    Want to feel old? I got curious and looked up how old Adam Sandler was in the movie Big Daddy. He was 33 when this movie was filmed. Dylan and Cole Sprouse, who play the role of Julian when they were still children, turn 33 in 2 months. They will be the same age as Adam Sandler from this movie.

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Any fans of the 1999 comedy film Big Daddy?

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  • SpruceBringsteen @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 22, 2026

    Put some respect on Punch-Drunk Love. Wedding Singer and Big Daddy weren't exactly Oscar bait, but they showed Sandler had a few gears that people wouldn't expect.

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  • Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    You can't possibly know that for sure. Big Daddy caused at least one person to get tripped by a big stick while rollerblading because it looked fun in the movie.

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  • Kenny Booyah! @kennybooyah.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    Watching that old western movie “The Big Country.” It’s so good…and Burl Ives was superb as “Big Daddy.” That role won him an Oscar & a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Kristy Swanson is a remarkable actress who hasn’t been working on best known film since Big Daddy. I enjoyed watching her performance as Buffy in the 1992 film, Kristen on Higher Learning, Vanessa on Big Daddy, and her collaboration with John Hughes. #Filmsky #Moviesky #Horrorsky #October

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  • M SiFEAR @msipher.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    WEEKLY WEDNESDAY @tfwiki.net PIC! Cool, man, cool! Now this is just a damn good toy. It's BIG DADDY from the 2007 movie line! youtube.com/shorts/fw035...

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  • Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    My other weird movie hallucinations no one knew about were the Unico movies and Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller. Trying to explain that I knew about the guy who sang that song on the Big Daddy soundtrack from a 1980s French Canadian kids movie about a boy in a stamp was a challenge.

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  • BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    What’s a random movie quote that you use every day? @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social and I say “I can do it” like the Sprouse twins in BIG DADDY whenever one of us asks the other if they need help doing something.

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  • QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    We got 220 copies of Blair Witch on VHS in late Oct 1999. The next fucken week we got 232 copies of Sandler's Big Daddy and we had to move the whole new release wall to the right to fit that piece of crap movie in front of Blair Witch. Yeah I'm still bitter 27 yrs later. #FamilyVideo4evah

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  • Ridski @ridski.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2024

    #MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 11: Movie with the best soundtrack: Separating score from soundtrack, I'm going with Colors. Ice-T, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim's Paid in Full Coldcut mix, Kool G Rap, Roxanne Shanté, MC Shan... A perfect 1988 time capsule. youtu.be/JtQrDovVUSg?...

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  • ebon #Lesbians4Lala @unfoundedground.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Daddy-son movies to watch instead of #bb28 live feeds Big Daddy (1999) Finding Nemo (2003) The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011) A Goofy Movie (1995)

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  • Scary FrankenLarry @frankenlawrence.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    NW: It's a Bikini World (1967) - Tommy Kirk & Deborah Walley star in this cut-rate beach movie. Also with Lori Williams, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, and Sid Haig as "Big Daddy". Performances by The Animals, The Toys, The Gentrys, and The Castaways.

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    Said it before but it was a pretty clear hint where the zombie genre was going when zombie fanboys ( not necessarily Romero fans, mind, to get a little "No True Scotsman!" Here) got mad the movie didn't end with the wholesale slaughter of Big Daddy and his horde.

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  • Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    I recently saw the actor who played Big Daddy in this play the father of a character in a Hallmark movie.

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  • Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    I KNEW THEY WERE THOSE ZOMBIES IN THE FILM! I just didnt realise they were right next to Big Daddy on the cover.

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  • Sol Fury @solfury.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    "I can take the Decepticons anytime, anywhere!" Big Daddy - Transformers (2007 Movie) (Deluxe class, 2008) #transformers #transformersclassics #transformersmovie

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  • Patrick Monahan @pattymo.comBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    Lots to like in this movie imo. Big Daddy Mars absolutely rocks. Also “Desolation Williams” an all time name

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  • ProzacElf @prozacelf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2024

    Big Daddy does have the distinction of being the last Adam Sandler movie that is pretty consistently funny the whole way through though

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  • StormaciousD @stormaciousd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Big Daddy, "Never Grow Up" (honestly Never Grow Up is the plot of like 20 Sandler movies)

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  • Occam Razor @badatmath314159.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    One more… since I loooooove this song. BTW, this song is from Robert Townsend’s “The Meteor Man”. Notable musical performers in the movie include Luther Vandross, Naughty by Nature, Cypress Hill, & Big Daddy Kane. #CarlsChallenge #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16j...

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    Time for another movie, before AEW Dynamite. Next randomly selected movie is... Big Daddy, 1999

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  • bongwaterdrinker69 @kushbreth.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    revealed to mishka and dani today that my daddy issues are so bad that Big Daddy was an emotional comfort movie in my childhood

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  • David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.comBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    We literally went to a local restaurant named Big Daddy's because... pasta... and this movie. AND... we've been there a million times, but today? We actually SAW Big Daddy (He is short, and Greek, and very old). Anyway... watch this one.

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  • Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.appBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    We got Eyes Wide Shut, The Matrix, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, Tarzan, The Mummy, Blair Witch Project, Big Daddy, She's Al That, Life, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Princess Mononoke, Pokémon The first movie...

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  • C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    I’ve seen my dad cry like twice in my entire life and once was at a theater showing of the Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy

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  • Cinematic Second Chances @cinemaseconds.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    Just watched a new print of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Dir. R. Brooks. It’s a great film, but as Big Daddy says, “Something doesn’t add up.” The absence of gay subtext leaves a big hole, but Taylor and Newman’s performances are superb. Direction, however, feels pedestrian. #Moviesky #Filmsky🎞️📽️🐱

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  • Jon of the 80s @nostalgiajon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2025

    Yep another Adam Sandler movie. Going to watch Big Daddy. Again good for a few laughs #filmsky #adamsandler #bigdaddy

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  • Trey aka Norman Osborn’s 360 waves @trey-swindu744.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2025

    He’s dressed like that little boy in that Adam Sandler movie “ Big Daddy “😂😂☠️💀

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  • American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    Father’s Day is this Sunday! 👔💥 And for all the East Side Dads, we’re celebrating ‘Bad Ass Dads in Bad Ass Movies’ all day at LF3. A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) - 4pm EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) - 7pm BIG DADDY (1999) 35mm - 10pm www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/

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  • Morgan "Joshi Dyke Dickhead"🗡️ 🛡️ @girlnextvore.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Fun fact the first movie i ever remember renting was Little Nicky and the first movie i remember watching was Big Daddy i as a sandler head

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  • charliestoupee.bsky.social @charliestoupee.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    There's an entire scene in the movie Big Daddy with Adam Sandler about this. That movie came out in 1999.

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  • J @honorthesafeword.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2025

    Five comedies to get to know me: High School High The Brady Bunch Movie Step Brothers Nacho Libre Big Daddy

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  • Rory. @rawrewreckz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Is Adam Sandler's "Big Daddy" film considered a rom-com? It gotta be, right? If so, is it the best one ever?

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  • Chris Buchner @cbuchner.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2024

    Creative people have been laid off and their time wasted on multiple projects all in the name of savings, but somehow Big Daddy Z is able to be compensated the budget of a small film.

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  • Lisa/M @therock1996fan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2024

    Surely people have pointed this out but I didn’t realize until the opening credits that dude in Lisa Frankenstein is one of the kids that played Frankenstein in Big Daddy and I lost my mind for most of the movie based on that

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  • DADDY Dione @dionespedi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    All About Big Daddy D Day 22 The new Odyssey movie is in my top 5 favorite movies. It was so damn good! The book/poem is in my top 10!

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  • acallan1, god emperor of the Unites States @acallan1.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    ok her original film credits being Big Daddy & Coyote Ugly is just incredibly funny. what a character launch bsky.app/profile/josi...

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  • ANTIFA 1776 @ladybroseph.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    Big Daddy isn't what I call you in bed, it's this week's @nafmcpodcast.bsky.social movie! Join Steve Buscemi @thenatewolf.bsky.social & Adam Sandler @murrman5.bsky.social & Leslie Mann @ladybroseph.bsky.social Like, share and comment, friends! open.spotify.com/episode/7MSS...

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  • TallyMichelle4 @tallymichelle4.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2025

    Right answer to the last (13May) #FilmSky #MovieSky #MovieGuessingGame 🎬🤔❓ Can you name this Movie Was - Big Daddy

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  • Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2025

    I'm surprised @brianzane.bsky.social's never done a Kevin Nash Movie Month ("Big Daddy Cinema") for Wregret yet...

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  • Jack @spectraljack.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Big Daddy C come see When Fall is Coming in theater 2 we saved you a seat

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  • 🎃 Rik (but a bit spookier) 🎃 @slightlyonfire.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    Ray 2 drives a black muscle car so there could be a redeco set with Movie Big Daddy and the Diefenbaker recoloured to match the slightly different coat colour of the different dog that played him in s3-s4 (it’s the set that keeps on giving!)

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  • horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    I'd have been first in the queue for a Big Daddy versus the Monsters epic! But indeed, the amount of wrestling depends on the Santo film. Some have several lengthy bouts, others none. The fast forward button can come in rather handy 😄

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  • Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    I regret to inform you that in the year 1999 I spent several of my parents' hard-earned money on a ticket to see the film Big Daddy.

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  • Auntie Babs @kittykatya.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    There are a few extra additions to the normal Tiny Toons cast for this film: Jonathan Winters and Edie McClurg as Hampton’s parents and Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg, for those in the know) as Big Daddy Boo. #svfilmfest #roadtrip! 😺🎟️🚙

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  • Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    Big Daddy is arguably the most compassionate character in that film, and he’s a flesh-eating monster!

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  • Delia (she/any) @deliaisnthappy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    @chinnyvision.bsky.social @danmckee.bsky.social Anyone else ever seen Michael Caine/Brosnan spy thriller the Fourth Protocol Pure #itvcore. Brosnan watching Big Daddy and Kwik Kick Lee on World of Sport from 1982 a. youtu.be/FSw4RI16D94?... - the film b. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td7T... - the match

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  • Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.onlineBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    I remember seeing a movie poster for the Sandler MR. DEEDS in the cinema and my friend insisting that this movie was a direct sequel to BIG DADDY

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  • PatriciaD @psdumas.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    Hey Paula!! As I remember, that character was played by Burl Ives in the movie? They called him Big Daddy..

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  • Stefan Ellison @mrcoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    A fun game to play while watching "Big Daddy" is trying to figure out which Sprouse is in each scene. letterboxd.com/mrcoat/film/...

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  • Ally @brunchsohard.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Watching Big Daddy and realizing how many quotes I say on the daily from this movie.

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  • RoseJerry’s Baby @jeratthemovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    CLUB KID – I liked it. I’d recommend it. My praise is more muted than that of many of my fellow festivalgoers. The critic in me sees 1999’s BIG DADDY transposed to NYC’s queer club scene. The film fan in me was won over by this funny, heartwarming portrait of parenthood and arrested development. 📽️

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