1998 · adam-sandler · sports · underdog
The Waterboy
Directed by Frank Coraci1h 30m1998
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Our read: The Waterboy (1998) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adam-sandler · sports · underdog entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured adam-sandler / sports, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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