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The Waterboy
Directed by	Frank Coraci
Produced by	Jack Giarraputo Robert Simonds Adam Sandler
Written by	Tim Herlihy Adam Sandler
Starring	Adam Sandler Kathy Bates Fairuza Balk
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	November 6th, 1998
Running time	90 min
Language	English
Budget	$23,000,000
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The Waterboy is a movie starring Adam Sandler, released in 1998. It co-stars Henry Winkler, Kathy Bates, Jerry Reed, and Fairuza Balk. Lynn Swann has a cameo and Rob Schneider has a small cameo role as a fan that Schneider reprised in other Sandler movies. Sandler produced the movie and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. It was directed by Frank Coraci.

The movie was extremely profitable, earning over $160 million in the United States alone and made Sandler a successful actor with Waterboy becoming his second $100 million film in a year, along with The Wedding Singer.

Sandler's character, Bobby Boucher, bears a strong resemblance to his "The Excited Southerner" comedic skits from his album "What The Hell Happened To Me?" He also shares similarities in speech and mannerism to Canteen Boy, a recurring character, also portrayed by Adam Sandler, on Saturday Night Live. Like Bobby, Canteen Boy preferred "purified water, right out of the old canteen", which he always carried with him.

Taglines:

• A man with a serious drinking problem.
• High-Quality H₂O.
• Instant Hero. Just Add Water.
• You can mess with him. But don't mess with his water.
• Everybody will feel his pain November 6.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 External links

Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher (pronounced in the French fashion as "Boo-SHAY"), a socially inept (but also intelligent) water boy with anger issues due to constant teasing and his mother's (Kathy Bates) excessive sheltering. He was the water boy for the fictitious University of Louisiana Cougars, but the players tormented him, and the team's head coach, Coach Red Beaulieu, (Jerry Reed) fired him for disrupting his team's practices. He later goes to Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), coach of the fictitious South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs, and volunteers to work as the team's water boy for free after seeing the filthy water that the coach provides his players. Coach Klein notices his anger problem and encourages Bobby to stand up for himself instead of letting the players walk all over him. Bobby then effortlessly tackles one of the players, prompting Coach Klein to put him on the field, with positive results. Despite his overprotective mother's disapproval, he secretly continues to play football, and also secretly goes to school. Here, he uses his anger to tackle the opposing players by pretending they're making fun of him. He quickly becomes one of the most feared linebackers in college football and love interest of Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk). They play so good with Bobby on the team that they make it to the Bourbon Bowl against the Cougars. But during their victory bonfire and celebration, Coach Beaulieu and his team drop a bomb by showing Bobby's high school transcript, which turns out to be fake. But Coach Klein tells Bobby that he can continue to play on the team, if he takes and passes a GED exam. When his mom sees him studying for the exam, she is shocked when she finds out that he has been playing football and going to school behind his back, but Bobby says that he likes school and football and that he has had enough of his mother's over protectiveness. On the day of the exam, Bobby passes the exam with flying colors. Then the police arrive and tell Bobby that his mom is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack. Bobby misses the first half of the game due to being in the hospital with his mother, causing the Mud Dogs to fall behind. But after mending ways with his mother, Bobby joins the game, he is able to reinforce their defense and prevent further losses, but Coach Beaulieu adopts a scorched earth tactic of running out the clock; he's already winning, he just needs to neutralize Bobby's tackling abilities. Fortunately, Bobby convinces Coach Klein to overcome his old fear of Coach Beaulieu and design brilliant new plays that Beaulieu is unable to counter and the Mud Dogs score the winning touchdown at the very last instant. The movie ends with Bobby and Vicki getting married and driving off on his tractor.

The movie was filmed in DeLand, Florida. The Mud Dogs home stadium is actually Spec Martin Memorial Stadium, where the DeLand High School Bulldogs play football and soccer. Some of the classroom footage was filmed at Stetson University, also located in DeLand.

• Adam Sandler .... Robert 'Bobby' Boucher, Jr.
• Kathy Bates .... Helen 'Mama' Boucher
• Fairuza Balk .... Vicki Vallencourt
• Henry Winkler .... Coach Klein
• Jerry Reed .... Coach Red Beaulieu
• Larry Gilliard Jr .... Derek Wallace
• Blake Clark .... Farmer Fran
• Peter Dante .... Gee Grenouille
• Jonathan Loughran .... Lyle Robideaux
• Al Whiting .... Casey Bugge
• Clint Howard .... Paco
• Allen Covert .... Walter
• Rob Schneider .... Townie
• Todd Holland .... Greg Meaney
• Robert Kokol .... Professor
• John Farley .... Tony Dodd
• Kevin P. Farley .... Jim Simonds
• Frank Coraci .... Robert 'Roberto' Boucher, Sr.

• "Vicky Vallencourt"'s last name is a reference to "Tony Vallencourt" a character played by Adam Sandler on SNL. Her name also continues the tradition of the female lead in Adam Sandler movies have both her first and last name begin with the letter V.
• The line "You can do it!" is referenced in "Original Prankster" by The Offspring. The line was used again in Sandler's movies Little Nicky and The Longest Yard and was both times said by Rob Schneider.
• The wrestler Captain Insano is played by actual pro wrestler Paul Wight, also known as World Wrestling Entertainment's Big Show or as The Giant during his time in the WCW.
• Big Show made reference to his small part in the movie on an edition of RAW, when WWE Champion John Cena and World Heavyweight Champion Booker T talked about their respective movies, The Marine and Ready to Rumble. After Show mentioned the movie, Cena and Booker broke out in laughter, exploiting his matter of seconds on screen.
• The stadium in the opening of the Bourbon Bowl is USC's Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. The game itself was filmed in The Citrus Bowl, in Orlando, Florida
• Most of the school scenes were shot at Stetson University and Deland Highschool in Deland, Florida.
• The famous medulla oblongata scene was filmed in Edge Hall of Florida Southern College, in Lakeland Florida.

• The Waterboy at the Internet Movie Database