6 Film Box Set: Big Daddy/Bily Madison/Funny People/Happy Gilmore/Longest Yard/You Don’T Mess With The Zohan DVD – Joy Stewart, Joey Lauren Adams

A collection of Adam Sandler comedies. In ‘Big Daddy’ (1999) Sonny Koufax (Sandler) is a 32-year-old loser who refuses to take responsibility for his life and spends his days watching television in his pyjamas. The day after his girlfriend Vanessa (Kristy Swanson) dumps him, five-year-old Julian (Cole and Dylan Sprouse) arrives at his house, claiming to be the son of his recently departed flatmate. Sonny then mistakenly decides that adopting Julian will impress Vanessa, only to discover that there is more to parenting than meets the eye. In ‘Billy Madison’ (1996) Billy (Sandler) has an easy life as the heir to his millionaire father’s hotel empire, until his dad decides to turn over the company to vice president Eric Gordon (Bradley Whitford). Billy bets his father that if he goes back to school he can attain grades 1 to 12 in 24 weeks. No mean feat, as Billy has spent the ten years since he left high school lazing by the pool and chasing women. When he falls for his new teacher, however, he attends to his studies with renewed vigour. In ‘Funny People’ (2009) Sandler stars as George Simmons, a famous comedian who finds out that he has an incurable blood disorder and less than a year to live. His subsequent desire to form a genuine bond with another human being causes George to proffer a hand up the career ladder to struggling newcomer Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), whom he takes under his wing as his assistant and opening act. Meanwhile, George also seeks reconciliation and closure in the central relationships of his life, in particular with his ex-wife, Laura (Leslie Mann). In ‘Happy Gilmore’ (1996) Sandler stars as the eponymous would-be hockey star who finds his slap shot better employed on the fairway. When his granny loses her house to the IRS, Happy determines to buy it back by winning the pro golf tour. His temper and antics soon make him golf’s media darling, but a bitter rival (Christopher McDonald) has a few tricks in store. ‘The Longest Yard’ (2005) concerns a pro quarterback, Paul Crewe (Sandler), and the former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro (Burt Reynolds), who are both doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game ‘fixed’ to turn out quite another way. Finally, in ‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’ (2008), Sandler as Zohan Dvir, an Israeli Special Forces soldier who fakes his own death so he can reinvent himself as a hairdresser in New York. He throws himself into his new identity with admirable gusto, romancing his clients by performing ‘special services’ in the back room – but is eventually recognised and must face losing his newfound life and career.

Titles Comprise:Big Daddy: Nature called. Look who answered.Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he’s got to find a way to prove he’s ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She’s not impressed…and he can’t return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!Billy Madison: He’s heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied lately are babes and booze. For him, life has been a ten-year party since he left high school: drinking bottomless daiquiris, catching rays by the pool, pulling moronic pranks and chasing anything in (or out of!) a skirt.But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president and corporate weasel Eric Gordon, Billy makes the bet of his life. He’s going back to school; grades 1 through 12 in 24 weeks! With hilarious results! And this time, Mr Madison’s cheque book won’t be the source of Billy’s academic advancement. Funny People: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in this seriously funny film from writer-director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up). When famous comedian George Simmons (Sandler) is given a second chance at a new beginning, he and his assistant, a struggling comedian, Ira (Rogen), return to the places and people that matter most… including the stand-up spots that gave him his start and the girl that got away (Mann). Co-starring Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman, it’s the film that critics have hailed as uproariously funny.Happy Gilmore: Adam Sandler stars in this hilarious comedy that scores a hole in one for gut-busting wit and outrageous slapstick. Happy, a raucous hockey player turned golfer, sends the sedate sport into overdrive after he becomes a media sensation with his outlandish antics on the links. It’s par for the course entertainment co-starring Christopher McDonald, Carl Weathers and Kevin Nealon.Longest Yard: In the role of Paul Wrecking Crewe, first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife’s (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees, suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates, this is the chance they’ve been waiting for, and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards.You Don’t Mess With The Zohan: Director Dennis Dugan and screenwriters Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) present You Don’t Mess With The Zohan – a hilarious comedy about a Mossad Agent (Sandler) who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream… To become a hairstylist in New York!