Big Daddy Page #4

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
9,106 Views


You must be wrecked.

Anyways, I had fun today.

Did you have fun?

Yeah, you're all right.

Have a good one.

Could I have a night-light?

Night-light? I think I can

help you out. Hang on.

Let's see here.

There you go, all right?

Are you my dad?

No, I'm not, but...

...that Dad and Mom thing

we'll figure out in the morning.

You just go to sleep.

- Good night.

- Good night.

Go get the can, okay?

Go! Go! Go!

I'm thinking about keeping the kid.

Remember when we went to

the pet store...

...and you wanted that puppy,

but I reminded you about feeding it...

...cleaning it

and toilet training it?

This is kind of like that,

except with a human.

I mean, I'm glad you had fun and all,

but this is big.

I gotta do something big.

I think Vanessa will respect that.

You think that since women get pregnant

to fix a troubled relationship...

...why can't a guy adopt a kid

to do the same?

I didn't think of it like that.

But yes, that's what I'm thinking.

Sounds nuts to me, pal.

Do yourself a favor. Sleep on it.

You're right.

Can I use your phone?

Arthur Brooks speaking.

How you doing?

Kevin Gerrity.

Right on, Mr. Gerrity

We were expecting you.

Do you still got a foster family

lined up for Julian?

Yes, we do.

I've decided to

take care of the little guy.

Way to sleep on it, pal.

You two want to get married,

I support that.

When parents take the responsibility,

there's no bigger high for us.

I'm psyched about it too

So that's it.

Yep. Good luck

to you and your son.

My son.

Goddamn stick!

That's my boy.

Go back to sleep.

Well, I'm going back to sleep.

Nighty-night.

I wet my bed.

Oh, God.

That's a shitload of piss.

There you go, all right?

No more wetness.

Sleep, all right? Just try to sleep.

Stay asleep.

Sit still!

Lay!

All right! I'm up!

It smells like urine in this joint.

Good job.

What're you doing there, boy?

Making cereal.

Oh, yeah? Why don't you

pour me a bowl?

Or don't pour me a bowl. Either way.

I got it. I got it.

We can fix this.

It's not a big deal.

Look. See?

See how quick it goes away?

Crybaby, come on.

Don't worry about it, boy.

Scuba Steve, damn you!

You think that's funny,

me getting hurt?

There's a bright side to being up

before 11:
McDonald's breakfast.

I haven't been up for that

in 10 years. You wanna go?

Tie your shoes, we'll go. Hurry.

It's like 12 blocks from here,

so tie quickly.

Do you need help with that?

I can do it.

Let me do it.

You loop it, you swoop it and you pull.

You loop it, you swoop it, you pull.

Good. Let's go. We're in a hurry.

It's different for your generation.

You've always had

McDonald's breakfast available.

I have?

When I was born, all we had were

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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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