Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Adam SandlerBobby Boucher
- Kathy BatesMama Boucher
- Henry WinklerCoach Klein
- Fairuza BalkVicki Vallencourt
- Jerry ReedRed Beaulieu
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Derek Wallace
- Blake ClarkFarmer Fran
- Peter DanteGee Grenouille
- Jonathan LoughranLyle Robideaux
- Al WhitingCasey Bugge
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
Arguably Sandler's most enjoyable motion picture to date, but it's still far from a masterpiece. - 63
Rolling Stone
Offers dumb fun without apology. - 60
The New York Times
This escapist comedy is so cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good-hearted that it's genuinely endearing. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is a delight. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
An unabashed wallow in the moronic humor of Adam Sandler. - 50
Austin Chronicle
It's not "Billy Madison," quite, but The Waterboy is still pure Sandler. If you like that sort of thing. - 40
Washington Post
Another film about . . . a cretinous, grating loser. - 40
Chicago Reader
Geek-triumphs-after-all comedies can be charming, but in this one the triumphing begins so early it's hard to feel for the geek.
