Big Daddy Page #3

Synopsis: Sonny Koufax is 32 years old. He's a law school graduate. He's got a nice apartment in Manhattan. There's just one problem. He does nothing, except sit on his butt and live off an investment that was the result of a meager lawsuit he won a year ago. But after his fed up girlfriend leaves him, he comes up with the ingenious idea to adopt a five year old boy to showcase his newfound maturity. But things don't go as planned, and Sonny finds himself the unlikely foster father that will change his perspective on just looking out for himself.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Dennis Dugan
Production: Columbia Pictures
  8 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG-13
Year:
1999
93 min
Website
9,052 Views


Can you be a tough little guy

until then?

Great.

Do I need to get you a bottle

of formula or something?

What do you eat?

Food.

Yeah? I eat food too.

What? Come on.

You need me to hold your hand?

On Mondays, I go to Central Park

and watch rollerbladers fall down.

- You into that?

- I don't know.

Watch. This guy's humming.

He's going down, he's going down,

he's going!

How old are you, anyways?

Five.

You wear a diaper?

You wipe your own ass then?

You do? Good job. That's cool.

Come on, fall down. Fall down. Yes!

Come on, damn it.

You suck. You suck!

Check this out.

My God!

There's a stick there.

Somebody should move it.

All right now, what way

would you put that on?

This Columbo, he pretends

to be stupid...

...but he's really smart as a tack.

Oh, yeah, he is.

You put the vane on down there

Then this boat comes up

I wipe my own ass.

Me too.

So, Mr. Ass Wiper,

what's this guy's name?

Scuba Steve.

Does he ever take his flippers off?

What if he goes bowling?

They don't make him wear bowling shoes?

He wears flippers?

Really?

I had a doll like that at one time.

But my cat, he bite his head off.

What cat would do that?

You calling me a liar?

Hey, take it easy.

Anyways...

...Jets are playing tonight.

We're gonna go to the Blarney Stone.

Wanna come?

I've got more deliveries.

Maybe you can also finish

the turkey on your lip.

Right there.

Let's crank up the Styx

No music during the game.

- It's halftime. Relax, Mr. Herlihy.

- Goddamn Jets.

What are you doing in here, cutie?

Watching football.

- Who do you want to win?

- The goddamn Jets.

Have fun.

Too bad you don't like girls.

I think you could've had her.

- I'm thirsty.

- You're thirsty?

Are you allowed soda?

I don't know.

My mom always said

soda rots your teeth...

...but you'll lose them

anyway, so rot on.

- Can we get two root beers?

- Sure.

When I graduated law school, we met

here every Monday to watch football.

Who would meet you?

My friends, Vanessa.

Vanessa always rooted against the team

I wanted to win just to bust my chops.

But everybody's so busy with

their crap lately, no one comes.

Like I'm not busy?

Shut up or I'll smack you

through the wall like last Monday.

Last Monday was a fluke.

Bring it on, woman.

Anytime.

He drinks a lot of soda.

I'm telling you, buddy. Vanessa,

she's the one. I can't lose her.

I'm not getting any handsomer.

Every day I get a little bit older

and balder and fatter.

Fatter?

At your age I could eat anything.

Wouldn't gain an ounce.

Now, I have a chocolate shake,

my ass jiggles for a week.

- Enjoy the metabolism while you got it.

- Metalobism?

Good God, it's 2:30 in the morning.

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Steve Franks

Steve Franks is an American screenwriter and musician based in Orange County, California. He devised the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy and wrote the screenplay with Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. Franks graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He also attended a graduate program at Loyola Marymount University.Franks created the USA Network original series Psych, and created the band The Friendly Indians, which recorded the show's theme song. He wrote several episodes of the series, and also directed many. Franks served as an executive producer and the showrunner on the CBS series Rush Hour, which was cancelled in May 2016. Franks co-wrote and directed Psych: The Movie, a two-hour USA Network TV movie, which aired on December 7, 2017. more…

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