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Heads up, some of your favorite movies are moving around in September. The good news is, a lot of them will now be free to watch, as they’re headed to Tubi.

With no account creation or subscription requied, Tubi allows movie and TV fans to watch some of their favorites for completely free, though you will have to put up with ads. Their library is only getting deeper, and in September, they’re adding a ton more.

Below, you’ll find a full list of what’s new on Tubi in September.

September 1

“A Chiara”

“All Eyez On Me”

“All I See Is You”

“All In The Family (1971)” – Seasons...

Tubi is kicking off September with dozens of familiar titles, including a range of horror films like “Crawl,” “Fright Night” and “Lake Placid” ahead of the fall season.

The streamer also plans to add the popular animated action-comedy, “Archer, which follows super spy Sterling Archer and the global missions of his dysfunctional team of secret agents. The September lineup will also feature TV series like “Sabrina The Teenage Witch,” Season 5 and 6 of “Community,” “The Steve Harvey Show” and more.

Other film and TV offerings include “King Kong,” “Max Payne,” Black Knight,” “Blood And Bone,” “Stuck With You,” “Terror Lake Drive,” “Coming To America” and “Cuban Fury.” Plus, two new original thrillers arrive this month.

Here are all the new titles coming to Tubi in September.

Tubi Original Comedy

“Rel Talk” – Lil Rel Howery brings signature humor to Chicago’s What’s Funny Comedy Festival in a personal, hilarious, high-energy stand-up performance.

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its September titles. The Tubi September 2025 slate includes Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, drama, horror, kids and family, sci-fi and fantasy, and thriller titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi September 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices, including Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi website.

Tubi Originals

Thriller

Dark Secret – 9/12

When a couple takes in a new roommate,...

Before Adam Sandler teed up again in Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix, his most critically acclaimed movie, Uncut Gems, nearly cast Scarlett Johansson in a lead role opposite Sandler; the role was originally written for newcomer Julia Fox.

In a June episode of the Jay Shetty Podcast, Fox revealed that although the Safdie brothers wrote the character of Julia De Fiore specifically for her, studio executives pushed for bigger names, including Johansson. She said,

I auditioned like everyone else. Unfortunately, even though they had written it for me, the studios were like, ‘We don’t know her.’ They wanted Scarlett Johansson and all these other beautiful women and established actresses.

Despite having doubts about her acting ability, Fox won the part after a screen test with Sandler. She added,

At that time I didn’t even know if I could actually act-act, but I had a hunch. I did a screen test with Adam Sandler,...

For over thirty years, Adam Sandler has delighted and ultimately outlasted Hollywood’s tendency to underestimate him. Once known for immature, crowd-pleasing comedies, Sandler has quietly, and at times loudly, led one of the most enduring careers in entertainment. He’s been a 'Saturday Night Live' standout, a box office powerhouse, a frequent Razzie nominee, a streaming pioneer, and, as of 2024, a certified comedy veteran selling out stadium tours. Through every reinvention, the man affectionately known as “The Sandman” has held onto his authenticity, something rare in Hollywood. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal,...

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Happy Gilmore 2 is a sports comedy film directed by Kyle Newacheck from a screenplay co-written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. The 2025 legacy sequel film picks up the story of Happy Gilmore as he has given up golf after a tragedy and taken up excessive drinking instead. Due to his alcoholism, Happy loses everything from his fortune to his house, and when his daughter wants to go to an elite ballet school, he must return to the golf course to earn the money. Happy Gilmore 2 stars Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Benny Safdie, Bad Bunny, Ben Stiller, and Margaret Qualley. So, if you loved the bonkers story, hilarious comedy, and entertaining characters in Happy Gilmore 2, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Happy Gilmore (Starz) Credit – Universal Pictures

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Chuck Lorre is back with a new sitcom, titled “Leanne,” led by standup comedian Leanne Morgan.

The sitcom follows Leanne as her life gets turned upside down after her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman, leading her to lean on her twice-divorced sister Carol (Kristen Johnston) and her family to get through the tough spot.

Learn more about the cast of the new Netflix sitcom below, and where you might have seen them before.

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Leanne Morgan as Leanne

Comedian Leanne Morgan plays the sitcom’s titular character Leanne, who is in for the shock of her life when her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman.

Outside of her standup, Morgan can be seen in “You’re Cordially Invited” and “Sun Moon.”

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Kristen Johnston as Carol

Kristen Johnston plays Carol, Leanne’s sister who helps her navigate her divorce from first-hand experience,...

Adam Sandlerwas a staple of 90s and early 2000s comedy, and now, one of his most iconic films has a sequel out. The 1996 movie Happy Gilmore celebrated Happy (Sandler), a hockey player turned professional golfer whose unconventional approach to the sport did not make him allies. Especially with Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald). The sequel, which was released in July 2025, comes out nearly 30 years later, and now if you're trying to watch the two back to back, you only have until the end of July to have that double feature on Netflix.

The sequel from director Kyle Newacheck is an emotional return to the character; the original film was directed by Dennis Dugan. But even 30 years later, the character of Happy Gilmore is someone who fans love for a reason. He loves fiercely, isn't ashamed of who he is, and will make sure that his skill as a golfer is loved and appreciated.

Adam Sandler rose to stardom during the 1990s with a string of hit comedies, including Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, and Big Daddy. He remained a comedy staple throughout the 2000s with popular movies such as Mr. Deeds, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, Click, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, Grown Ups 2, and Blended.

Since 2015, Sandler has made movies almost exclusively for Netflix, releasing titles like The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Week Of, Murder Mystery, Hubie Halloween, Murder Mystery 2, and You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. Now, Sandler has a new Netflix comedy out, and it's his biggest one yet.

Happy Gilmore 2 Sets Multiple Streaming Records It Was Just Released A Few Days Ago

Happy Gilmore 2 has set multiple Netflix streaming records in just days after its release. A sequel to 1996's Happy Gilmore,the...

Warning: Contains spoilers.

At this stage in his career, when Adam Sandler goes out to a prospective star of one of his projects, he probably doesn’t hear “no” a lot; it’s probably a lot likelier that he has to give a polite pass to the prospective stars who come to him. So it’s no surprise that Happy Gilmore 2 is loaded with celebrities, to the point where secondary and tertiary roles are filled by faces you know. Bad Bunny may be one of the biggest musical acts in the world right now; that doesn’t mean he can’t show up to play Happy’s new golf caddy. Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment shows up as a new golf rival to Happy (having presumably been cast before his recent public disgrace). Margaret Qualley has worked multiple times with acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos; doesn’t mean she’d...

Adam Sandler has once again proved his comedic genius and his talent with the release of Happy Gilmore 2. Being a sequel to his 1996 film, Happy Gilmore 2 has been enjoying a good time on Netflix as fans revisit the nostalgia where Sandler’s movies dominated the comedy genre.

When talking to ScreenRant about his decision to make Happy Gilmore 2, Adam Sandler was asked about revisiting his other classic movies, and perhaps giving them a sequel. The Pixels star was asked about finishing a trilogy, which went on to become one of Adam Sandler’s most iconic franchises of all time: Grown Ups.

When asked about a potential Grown Ups 3 as a means to finish off the trilogy, here’s what Adam Sandler had for a reply:

That could happen.

Back in 2010, Adam Sandler decided to cast his friends as parents and some kids for an ensemble cast in a movie called Grown Ups.

Happy Gilmore 2 has finally arrived on Netflix, and the much-anticipated Adam Sandler sequel's Rotten Tomatoes score is shockingly close to the original's. The new movie brings back much of the cast from the 1996 film, and crafts a legacy story about Happy returning to golf in order to fund his daughter's ballet classes.

The Rotten Tomatoes score for Happy Gilmore 2 is finally here, and, at the time of writing, it is a surprisingly decent 58% with critics based on the first 19 reviews, alongside a 72% audience score. This places it just below the 1996 original, which currently holds a 63% critic score and an 85% audience score.

While even the strongest reviews are not effusive, it seems that the film is connecting exactly as it needs to for most viewers. Richard Crouse called it "A mix of heart, rage, and silliness," while Kevin Slane of Boston.comdescribed it as "A little bit flabbier, a little bit shabbier,...

In a recent interview with ScreenRant, Adam Sandler, whose legacy sequel movie Happy Gilmore 2 is releasing this weekend, addressed the possibility of reviving other iconic movies and characters in his filmography. Sandler had previously spoken about other '90s projects he might be interested in bringing back for legacy sequels, while talking about Happy Gilmore 2.

Alongside other noteworthy projects, Adam Sandler gave us a 1990s comedy movie performance we can never forget in Happy Gilmore. After nearly 30 years since its release, there is a sequel, whose director, Kyle Newacheck, also hopes to make a Little Nicky sequel someday. While it's a 2000 film, Little Nicky is in the same vein as Sandler's '90s movies.

As an actor with some of his best characters being from the '90s, Adam Sandler, when asked about reviving other projects from the decade, said, "I'd love to do that", about a potential sequel to The Wedding Singer.

“Happy Gilmore 2” is a happy orgy of raucously well-executed Adam Sandler fan service. It’s a pointed exercise in nostalgia, but with a present-tense edge. It’s not some fake update of the clever/dumb brand of slob comedy that made Sandler a superstar in the ’90s. It’s the genuine article, a true revival of Sandler’s Jerry Lewis-meets-rock ‘n’ roll rage. A sequel to his fabled 1996 golf comedy, it extends that movie’s anarchy-on-the-putting-green spirit as blithely as if the original had been made yesterday.

In the ’90s comedies that defined him, Sandler portrayed himself as an arrested man-child, the kind of antisocial loser who had to fight his way in. So you may ask: How easy is it for him to play the misfit-outsider today, now that he’s been encased in so many years of stardom?

It turns out to be easy as hell,...

Later this month, Adam Sandler’s titular character will head back to the driving range in Happy Gilmore 2, adding a fresh chapter nearly three decades since the original movie had audiences laughing-crying in 1996. Call it nostalgia or put it on the comedian’s never-ending popularity, but another classic Sandler movie from the ‘90s is making streaming waves ahead of the golf-centered sequel’s arrival. According to FlixPatrol, the Saturday Night Live alum’s 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, is enjoying a boost in viewership numbers around the globe thanks to its availability on HBO Max. In more than a dozen countries, including Salvador, Paraguay, and Costa Rica, audiences are tuning in to see Sandler be a father figure to The Suite Life of Zack & Cody stars Cole and Dylan Sprouse, in one of the twins’ earliest roles.

Those of us of a certain age (millennials) will be shocked and horrified...

If baseball is America's pastime, then football is America's game, offering a harder hitting sport that pushes its players to their absolute limits. Ever since Hollywood started making sports movies, it's produced films revolving around football as a testament to the enduring popularity and cultural relevance of the game. And like the medium itself, football movies range across multiple dramas, whether it be searing dramas or screwball comedies. The narratives in the movies themselves can be based directly on true stories or just use the sport as a cinematic springboard for something wholly original.

Even if viewers aren't necessarily fans of football itself, there is still plenty to enjoy from movies surrounding the sport. With football always bringing such high intensity, movies about it can rival action flicks or character-driven dramas as a show of its versatility. Here are the 15 best football movies of all time ranked and ready to check out.

Another Adam Sandler sports comedy is heading to Hulu. Following Happy Gilmore's addition to the streamer's library earlier this month, The Longest Yard will make its way onto the platform at the top of next month.

Beginning July 1, The Longest Yard will be available to stream on Hulu. Released in 2005, the Peter Segal-directed sports comedy stars Sandler as Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, a washed-up former professional football quarterback who goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards. The movie was a remake of the 1974 movie of the same name starring Burt Reynolds, who appears in the new version as Nate Scarborough, a former college football star who agrees to coach the prisoners' team. Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner, David Patrick Kelly, Tracy Morgan, and Cloris Leachman also appear in supporting roles.

The Longest Yard was a commercial success, grossing $191.5 million worldwide off an $82 million budget.

Kathy Bates, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is widely regarded as one of the greatest character actresses of all time.

A powerhouse on the stage and screens big and small for the past 50 years, she won a best actress Oscar for bringing from the page to the screen Annie Wilkes, the psychopathic “number one fan” of an author of romance novels, in Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990) — a character that later was chosen, in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute, as the 17th greatest movie villain of all time. She subsequently garnered three other Oscar nominations, all in the category of best supporting actress — for Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors (1998), Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt (2002) and Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell (2019).

Bates also was part of the film that became the biggest blockbuster of all-time for 12 years, 1997’s Titanic, which was awarded the best picture Oscar,...

For decades, Kathy Bates has been both celebrated and underrated. When she won an Oscar for her fearsome performance in Rob Reiner’s 1990 Stephen King adaptation of “Misery,” she was greeted as a newcomer, even though she had made her film debut nearly 20 years earlier in Miloš Forman’s “Taking Off.” Her career since then has included Oscar noms for “Primary Colors,” “About Schmidt” and “Richard Jewell,” 14 Emmy nominations and two wins for “Two and a Half Men”and “American Horror Story: Coven,” and a varied resume that boasts both dramas like “Dolores Claiborne” and “Titanic” and comedies like “The Waterboy.”

Bates’ latest role is the title character in Jennie Snyder Urman’s “Matlock,” which borrows its name from the Andy Griffith legal drama from the 1980s and ’90s but knowingly subverts it in the process: Bates’ Madeline Kingston, aka Matty Matlock, solves cases just as Griffith’s Matlock had done,...

There's no denying the impact 28 Days Later had on the horror genre. Although not technically the undead, the "infected" in the movie revitalized what was quickly becoming a tired zombie gimmick in film, breathing new life into the monsters whilst also holding a mirror up to society in a bleak and powerful way akin toDawn of the Dead. Danny Boyle's frenzied horror, led by Cillian Murphy’s breakout performance, is considered by many to be one of the genre's best.

However, fewer have indulged further into the franchise and tasted the flesh of the lesser-known sequel, 28 Weeks Later. Directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the 2007 installment follows siblings Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton), a pair of beacons in a bleak landscape with their genes thought to hold the cure to the Rage Virus. Alongside Poots and Muggleton, the movie also stars the big-name trio of Robert Carlyle,...

When CBS first ordered a "Matlock" reboot back in 2023, the decision may have been a head-scratcher to some. Even aside from the fact that most of the cast of the original "Matlock" have passed away and their fans were likely nearing 60 years of age at least, the television landscape is already so crowded with courtroom dramas that an addition of this kind could understandably feel unnecessary. Speaking for those of us who held that opinion back then, we're happy to have been proven wrong.

"Matlock" is an unexpectedly fresh TV show with a unique perspective on the legal procedural genre, buoyed by a cast that flaunts comedic and dramatic talent in equal measure. This doesn't come as too much of a surprise if you recognize them from previous films and television shows, which include some of the best comedies and dramas TV has ever seen. From "The Office" and "Pitch Perfect...

Since being founded in 1953, under the banner of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (Wwwf), wrestling has garnered tens and millions of views on television, worldwide. But who said WWE is just for muscle men in spandex and over-the-top drama? Turns out, some of your favorite celebs are just as obsessed with body slams, steel cages, and storylines as the rest of us!

From Oscar winners to music champs, these stars have stepped out of the Hollywood spotlight to proudly cheer ringside—or openly express their passion for the sport. So grab your championship belt (or popcorn), because here are 10 famous faces you probably didn’t know were hardcore WWE fans.

10. Billy Corgan

Did you know, the lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, isn’t just about guitars and grunge? Yes, this music legend is apparently a full-blown wrestling nerd. While playing his music in arenas and major festivals,...

Happy Gilmore star Adam Sandler could be all set for Oscar glory with his new movie. Sadly, no, it’s not Happy Gilmore 2. The beloved actor and comedian will reunite with Netflix once again for an upcoming coming-of-age comedy-drama, with a source who's seen the movie revealing that, not only will the streamer campaign hard for Sandler to be considered by the Academy, but that could even win a coveted golden statue.

Titled Jay Kelly, the movie is being helmed by Academy Award nominee and Marriage Story director Noah Baumbach, and could be described as a coming-of-middle-age comedy as it follows friends, played by Sandler and George Clooney, who rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic reunion.

Now, buzz from an early screening (via World of Reel) has emerged, with “industry sources, journalists, and test reports” stating that Sandler steals the show in Jay Kelly, with the Billy Madison star delivering a career-best performance.

Throughout its 50-year run, "Saturday Night Live" has been the launching pad for some of history's most beloved comedic actors and actresses. Fans often debate which decade of "SNL" was the best, but an argument can be made that the 1990s featured some of the funniest sketches in the show's history, introducing audiences to up-and-comers who would go on to become some of the biggest names in comedy to this day. One of those young stars was none other than Adam Sandler.

After making his film debut in 1989, Adam Sandler performed stand-up comedy in clubs. At one of his performances in Los Angeles, "SNL" cast member Dennis Miller was in attendance. Impressed by Sandler's material, Miller recommended him to Lorne Michaels, which led to Sandler landing a job in the "SNL" writers' room in 1990 and eventually being promoted to featured player in the cast. Alongside his co-stars Chris Farley, Tim Meadows,...

Adam Sandler is one of his generation's most iconic comedy actors. His early works, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, etc., are among the most well-known and acclaimed. While later movies have seen a more "mixed" critical reception, Sandler has no doubt made his mark. But what if there was a secret Easter egg in several of his movies? And what if that Easter egg was hidden in plain sight?

In several Sandman pictures, his female love interest has the initials "Vv." There's Veronica Vaughn, Virginia Venit, Vicki Vallencourt, and more. But not every onscreen partner has these initials, so what's the story with the ones that do? Have we stumbled down some new conspiracy theory rabbit hole? Is "Vv" a secret sign warning of what's to come? Or is it just Sandler being Sandler and making up funny names? In all likelihood, the latter is the case.

The "Star Trek: Enterprise" episode "Borderland" was significant within "Star Trek" lore. It was the first part of a three-episode arc that finally offered a canonical reason as to why Klingons looked like humans in the original "Star Trek" series, but had large, outsize foreheads in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." It seems that a mad geneticist named Arik Soong (Brent Spiner) had been tinkering with genetic enhancements, creating "ideal" versions of humanity called Augments. In the lore of "Star Trek," such genetic enhancements are strictly verboten, as previous such attempts led to a vicious Eugenics War on Earth. Soong's ostracized Augments fell in with Klingon society, and began having children. The kids of Augments and Klingons looked like 1966-era Klingons. The DNA, Soon argues, will be bred out within a few generations. Hence, why Klingons looked different on "Next Generation." 

"Borderland" was just the opening act of the story,...

2025 is going to be a great year for fans of Adam Sandler. Alongside the comedic actors returning to Saturday Night Live in the recent 50th Anniversary Special, Sandler is set to tee off again in Happy Gilmore 2. The highly-anticipated sequel is debuting on Netflix this summer. However, Happy Gilmore wasn't the only beloved 90s sports comedy Sandler was a part of. The Waterboy was the other quintessential film from that decade that fans still can't get enough of. Now, ahead of Happy Gilmore 2’s release, Bobby Boucher has found a new streaming home.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's second rom-com together is climbing the streaming chart, as 50 First Dates sits at number five on the Prime Video chart. It's a great Valentine's Day date night movie and has plenty of charm and emotion. The movie follows a vet in Hawaii named Henry (Sandler) who falls for Lucy (Barrymore) with short-term memory loss. Basically, she forgets everything that happened the day before when she wakes up.

Her father and brother, played by Blake Clarke and a hilarious Sean Astin, are very protective of Lucy. Since she's "stuck" in the day she lost her memory in an accident, they attempt to play along with the idea that she wasn't in an accident. But love blooms between Henry and Lucy, despite his having to woo her constantly.

The film opened 21 years ago, on Feb. 13, 2004, just in time for Valentine's Day, and became an instant crowd-pleaser...

It’s unbelievable to learn that it has been almost 30 years since Happy Gilmore graced fans with its comedic presence in theaters and at home. The 1996 sports comedy was one of Adam Sandler’s first, before he had formed Happy Madison Productions, which went on to become a juggernaut in the movie business. The cast is made up of mostly familiar faces, many of whom went on to star in huge projects, including Sandler himself.

With a sequel film coming out this year, and many of the original cast members reprising their roles, fans are excited at the prospect of seeing the title character and his hockey-inspired golf style once again. But it also makes fans curious what the cast members have been up to in the last almost three decades, notably the ones who aren’t the most known figures.

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Skye P. Marshall isn’t religious, but she does believe in magic. You’d have to have some faith in a higher power after the few years she’s had. For the “Matlock” actress, 2020 and beyond has been a veritable hot streak of impeccable timing, great luck, and classic Hollywood fairytale. Few TV actors experience such good fortune, especially these days — but Marshall’s breakout role on CBS’s buzzy legal drama didn’t happen overnight.

“I didn’t have the courage to ask for what I wanted to do with the rest of my adult life until I was 27,” Marshall told IndieWire, looking back on the decade since she moved from New York to California. “Everyone thought I was crazy. They were like, ‘Do you have an agent?’ ‘No.’ ‘Any formal training?’ ‘Not really.’ ‘You have friends in LA though, right?’ ‘No, I do not.’ It was a cocktail...

This budget streaming bundle will let you watch your favorites from the 1990s for only $25 per month.

If you’re a millennial like me, you’re probably still trying to get used to the idea of the 1990s as being 30 years ago. The ’90s produced some of TV’s greatest moments, and it’s hard not to get a little nostalgic for shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Friends,” or the golden age of “The Simpsons.”

With that in mind, I’ve gone ahead and created the best bundle of streaming services that will deliver a hefty dose of nostalgia, all for under $25 per month. Take a look at what I’ve assembled below, and find out which nostalgic 90s TV shows and movies you can find on the services in question — all for only $25 per month!

What’s the best streaming bundle to watch nostalgic ’90s titles?

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One of Adam Sandler's most underrated and divisive comedies is finally returning to streaming this February. Sandler's run of comedies from 1995 to 2008 is nothing short of legendary. Within that time, the actor and writer released Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Punch-Drunk-Love, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, and You Don't Mess with the Zohan (this writer's personal favorite). But, the film that kicked it all off was Billy Madison, and it's finally coming back to streaming.

Billy Madison arrives on Hulu on Feb. 1; it was directed by Tamra Davis, and co-written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy (Happy Gilmore) and is one of Sandler's most underrated comedies. Released in 1995, the film follows 27-year-old Billy Madison (Sandler) who is set to take over his father's hotel empire. However, his father (Darren McGavin) has one demand before he inherits the fortune: for his son to go back and finish school.

Throughout his sprawling repertoire of cinematic work, Adam Sandler largely made his name off PG-13 movies, gathering a hefty following back in the ‘90s thanks to titles like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy. But sidelining the swear words and adult material helped crack a window and allowed him to engage with a new audience, while lending his voice to an animated film would swing the doors wide open on a long-standing franchise. Right now, Hotel Transylvania, the movie that first kicked-off the film series, is streaming on Netflix and audiences are rushing to take a bite out of the family-friendly fun. Slowly but surely making its way up the list since its addition to the streamer at the beginning of the month, the star-studded comedy currently sits in the platform’s #6 spot, giving those who grew up on Sandler’s crass ‘90s movies a chance to introduce him...

Because the world is a cruel place to beautiful souls like Adam Sandler, Ariana Grande can’t get through The Waterboy without some waterworks.

On paper, the story of The Waterboy and Bobby Boucher is practically a tragedy — a young man grows up in a repressive religious household raised by a traumatized and manipulative single mother, and his only escape from this rural, swampy poverty is through channeling his deep-seated pain and rage into physical violence that’s exploited for entertainment purposes.

Honestly, a critical read of the Sandler classic could interpret The Waterboy as an indictment of America’s obsession with violence, our insufficient education system and the controlling nature of fundamentalist Christianity in rural communities.

Maybe that’s why the pop star Grande weeps when she sees Boucher victimized onscreen, as she revealed in a recent interview clip that demands a watch after Nikki Glaser made beautiful celebrities...

The Waterboy brings singer, songwriter, and actress Ariana Grande to tears every single time she watches the classic 1998 sports comedy. In the film, Adam Sandler’s beloved Bobby Boucher finally finds his place as a member of Coach Klein’s (Henry Winkler) Sclsu Mud Dogs, but it isn’t easy. The Wicked star can’t hold back the waterworks when Bobby asks quarterback Gee Grenouille (Peter Dante) to remain his friend after blowing an early-season game for the football team. Gee refuses, and Grande can't hold back the tears, she said in an interview with W magazine:

When they're mean to Bobby Boucher, I cry. I don't like it. I love Bobby Boucher. He says, 'Would you please still be my friend?' and I lose it. But I cry at everything.

Grande is currently riding high on the success of her big-screen triumph as Glinda the Good Witch in...

Wicked star Ariana Grande has become renowned for her tearful interviews, but she claims one Adam Sandler movie never fails to make her cry. A former Nickelodeon child star and pop sensation, Grande recently wowed audiences as the Good Witch of the South, Glinda, in 2024’s record-breaking adaptation of the Wicked stage musical. Throughout the movie’s promotional efforts, Grande and co-star Cynthia Erivo became renowned for their emotion-filled interviews, prompting a slew of memes and viral reaction videos.

The frequency with which both actors had been brought to tears while promoting Wicked was not lost on either star. During one such interview, Grande even headed off prospective critiques of her propensity for crying, claiming, “I’ll say it first. I’m annoyed, I’m tired. My tear ducts [are tired].” Nonetheless, both stars remained resolute that their reaction was the natural culmination of a three-year-long journey during which both had formed a strong behind-the-scenes bond.

There’s one Adam Sandler movie that always makes Ariana Grande cry!

While discussing her emotional Wicked press tour in a new interview, the 31-year-old actress and singer revealed there’s a particular movie starring the 58-year-old actor/comedian that pulls on her heartstrings.

Keep reading to find out more…“The Waterboy, with Adam Sandler, makes me cry,” Ariana told W Magazine. “When they’re mean to Bobby Boucher, I cry. I don’t like it.”

“I love Bobby Boucher. He says, ‘Would you please still be my friend?’ and I lose it,” Ariana continued. “But I cry at everything.”

In The Waterboy, which was released back in 1998, Adam plays a 31-year-old man with autism who works as the waterboy before he’s recruited to play football.

Also in the interview, Ariana revealed she thought she was being catfished when this fellow musician contacted her.

Ariana Grande is no stranger to shedding tears, but there’s one Adam Sandler movie that truly makes her weep.

The singer-actress, who sparked a social media frenzy for her emotional responses during the press tour for Wicked, revealed that Sandler’s 1998 comedy film The Waterboy is the movie that makes her shed tears.

“The Waterboy, with Adam Sandler, makes me cry,” Grande told W Magazine of the 1998 film in an interview published on Friday. “When they’re mean to Bobby Boucher, I cry. I don’t like it. I love Bobby Boucher. He says, ‘Would you please still be my friend?’ and I lose it. But I cry at everything.”

Played by Sandler, Bobby Boucher is a socially awkward 30-something who serves as the water boy for the University of Louisiana football program. After he is unexpectedly fired, Bobby joins a rival team where he finds success as a linebacker.

Ariana Grande is very in touch with her emotions and recently revealed there’s one Adam Sandler movie that makes her cry.

The Wicked star makes no excuses and says she cries at everything, but The Waterboy is a movie that gets her in her feelings.

“The Waterboy, with Adam Sandler, makes me cry. When they’re mean to Bobby Boucher, I cry. I don’t like it,” Grande told W magazine. “I love Bobby Boucher. He says, ‘Would you please still be my friend?’ and I lose it. But I cry at everything.”

Grande referred to the 1998 sports comedy The Waterboy, a film directed by Fran Coraci and co-written by Tim Herlihy and Sandler. The film starred Sandler as Bobby Boucher, a 31-year-old man with autism who works as a waterboy and is recruited to play football. Sandler’s co-stars included Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed, and Henry Winkler.

For decades, Adam Sandler has been one of Hollywood's biggest stars, churning out hit comedy after hit comedy despite the less than stellar reputation a lot of them might have. His '90s run is one of his career high points with an impressive group of films that include Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy. Most of these films work so well solely because of Sandler's work in them.

Looking at Adam Sandler's best films overall tells a much different story, though. Under all the over-the-top comedic antics, Sandler's ability to bring out incredible dramatic performances is what helps to set him apart for so long in his career. Even his upcoming run of films would make no sense for most actors, but that is what makes Adam Sandler so interesting as an actor.

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The original is one of Adam Sandler's best comedies, and now Happy Gilmore 2 is in the works. Happy Gilmore was a key movie that, alongside Billy Madison, helped make Adam Sandler a comedy leading man. The 1996 hit featured Sandler as the title character, a failed ice hockey player who discovers an unlikely talent for golf. He uses this skill to win prize money that would help his grandmother get her house back, but first, he has to beat a jealous rival and learn to control his explosive anger.

Happy Gilmore made great use of Sandler's comic skills and featured a fantastic supporting cast, including Christopher McDonald as Gilmore's rival Shooter McGavin, Carl Weathers, and an uncredited Ben Stiller as evil retirement home orderly Hal. The success of the film led to bigger movies for Adam Sandler like The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy, but Happy Gilmore is still...

Adam Sandler has had one of the most enviable careers in show business since first appearing as Smitty on The Cosby Show in 1987. He has a list of comedy credits a mile long with many hits (and some flops that nonetheless provided him a vacation with his friends), and he's become a respected dramatic actor thanks to films like Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems. On top of that, he's still a beloved stand-up comic who has released material for more than 30 years, including this year's excellent Netflix special, Love You.

However, despite this massive career, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better period than his prolific run of film in the '90s — Airheads (1994), Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), and The Waterboy (1998), with Little Nicky, Punch-Drunk Love, and Mr. Deeds right around the corner. But it's Happy Gilmore that is often considered his best comedy, and that's the...

Ben Stiller is reprising his role from “Happy Gilmore” in the follow-up to Adam Sandler’s 1996 classic sports comedy, “Happy Gilmore 2.”

Netflix is backing the long-awaited sequel, which is currently filming in New Jersey. Along with Sandler and Stiller, the cast will include familiar faces such as Christopher McDonald as pro-golfer Shooter McGavin and Julie Bowen as Sandler’s character’s romantic interest Virginia Venit. New additions to the golf world of “Happy Gilmore 2” include comedian Nick Swardson, filmmaker Benny Safdie, musician Bad Bunny, actor Margaret Qualley and NFL star Travis Kelce.

Netflix didn’t respond to Variety’s request for comment about Stiller’s casting.

Kyle Newacheck is directing the sequel from a script by Sandler and his frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy.

Dennis Dugan helmed the original “Happy Gilmore,” which helped — along with “Billy Madison,” “The Wedding Singer” and “The Waterboy” — to cement Sandler as one of...

Netflix has recently been the place to find Adam Sandler thanks to his huge first-look deal with the streamer, but now fans of the actor are also enjoying his 2011 romantic comedy Just Go With It. The film has surged up the U.S. Netflix chart since arriving on the platform, allowing audiences who flocked to watch Sandlers team-up with Jennifer Aniston in two Murder Mystery movies to see the pairs first collaboration.

Just Go With It is a typical Sandler offering, in which he plays successful plastic surgeon Daniel Maccabee, who pretends to be in a failing marriage to avoid commitment. When he finally meets a woman he does actually want to have a relationship with, he asks his assistant, Kathrine played by Aniston, to pretend to be his soon-to-be-ex-wife. As is the nature of rom-coms, things get complicated very quickly as lies spiral out of control, and the laughs comewell,...

An Adam Sandler horror-comedy franchise is dominating a global streaming chart. Sandler is a five-time Emmy nominee who first rose to prominence as a member of the cast of the long-running NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He has since become a major comedy star, with his movies Billy Madison (about a wealthy adult man who is forced to return to school) and Happy Gilmore (about a golfer with anger issues) helping his star rise further and providing the name for his production company Happy Madison, which was founded in 1999.

While there are quite a few Adam Sandler movies that have earned Rotten Tomatoes splats, he has become a major commercial success. At the time of writing, his movies have collectively earned more than $5.5 billion, with many original comedies grossing $100 million or more, including 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, The Water Boy, Big Daddy, Click, and Pixels. However,...

Apparently, Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song” isn’t as ubiquitous as we thought.

Kathy Bates, who played Mama Boucher in The Waterboy, had never heard of the song — or Sandler — when she first received the script for the film. “Did you get The Waterboy right out of the gate?” Drew Barrymore asked Bates on her show this week.

“I actually read the first 12 pages and threw it in the trash right next to my bed,” Bates confessed. But the script didn’t stay in the garbage for long. Her niece Linda, who’s worked with Bates since 1994, rescued the screenplay soon after and asked why she threw it out. “Oh, it’s some football script, I don’t know what it is.”

Linda read the name on the front of the script. “Adam Sandler! You don’t know ‘The Chanukah Song’?”

Bates confessed she’d heard of neither, but Linda set her straight.

Henry Winkler had a memorable role in the Adam Sandler-led comedy The Waterboy, but as it turns out, Winkler's participation was not planned. The Happy Days star's appearance as Coach Klein was a last-minute favor for Sandler, who reached out to Winkler after the original actor cast for the role didn't show up for production. Frank Coraci's The Waterboy follows Sandler's Bobby Boucher, an awkward waterboy who discovers he has a hidden talent for football and becomes a member of Coach Klein's team. During an appearance on the Let's Talk Off-Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast, Winkler recounted the story of how he ended up as Coach Klein:

"I did [The] Waterboy. He [Sandler] called me up in the middle of the night. He said, 'Henry, I need a favor. My actor didn't show up. I need you to drive right now to the park. It's in L.A.

Netflix's Happy Gilmore 2 will include de-aged flashback scenes which open up doors for all types of possibilities in the upcoming comedy sequel. The highly anticipated sequel to Happy Gilmore will see the return of classic stars such as Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, and Julie Bowen. Happy Gilmore 2's cast will also feature Benny Safdie, Nick Swardson, Margaret Qualley, and cameo appearances by John Daly, Travis Kelce, and more. The Happy Gilmore sequel will be yet another one of Sandler's films made by Netflix and is poised to be one of his most popular straight-to-streaming movies yet.

Although there is no official logline available for Happy Gilmore 2 at the time of writing, the sequel should pick up some years after 1996's original movie, which is still considered to be one of Adam Sandler's greatest movies. Happy Gilmore 2 will be directed by Kyle Newacheck and written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy,...

Misery is Kathy Bates' all-time best performance by far. Nothing else comes even close, but we're sure you knew that already. However, we're really underselling it with that statement, as Kathy Bates' performance as Annie Wilkes in the notorious Stephen King adaptation is not only her career-best role, it's also one of the greatest horror/thriller performances ever put to screen. A good amount of credit for that can be given to Rob Reiner's direction and William Goldman's screenplay, but the real star of Misery is undoubtedly Kathy Bates. While the Matlock star is well-known for her impeccable range, other notable performances by Kathy Bates range from downright hysterical roles like in The Waterboy to effectively dramatic ones like in Richard Jewell which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Just about every aspect of why we love Kathy Bates is on display in Misery. There's humor,...

After a remarkable 50-year career in Hollywood, Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates has decided to retire, with the CBS reboot of Matlock serving as her final project.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Bates, 76, expressed her plans to step away from acting, calling this moment her “last dance.”

Reflecting on her career, Bates shared that acting has, at times, consumed her life, leaving little room for personal space. “It becomes my life,” Bates explained. “Sometimes I get jealous of having this talent, because I can’t hold it back, and I just want my life.” She added that she often felt out of place in the industry, noting, “I never felt dressed right or well. I felt like a misfit.”

Bates’ Decision To Retire After A Bad Experience

Bates’ decision to retire was nearly solidified after a bad experience on the set of an unnamed film, which left...