Adam Sandler is returning to the spotlight.The “Happy Gilmore”/”Billy Madison”/”Punch Drunk Love”/”Uncut Gems”/”Little Nicky” star will return to the road from Oct. 12 through Dec.
02.09.2023 - 00:07 / perezhilton.com
Adam Sandler is bringing his kids along for the ride.
Last Friday, Netflix dropped You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, a new movie starring the Sandman… AND his family. The comedy follows Stacy, played by the SNL alum’s IRL daughter Sunny, 14, and all the teen drama as she prepares for her Bat Mitzvah. The 50 First Dates star’s older daughter, Sadie, 17, plays Stacy’s older sister Ronnie, while Jackie Sandler, Adam’s wife, also makes an appearance.
However, before netizens could get their knickers in a bunch over the optics of the established actor getting these plum roles in the Netflix flick, director Sammi Cohen, who uses they/them pronouns, gave their thoughts on the nepo baby debate.
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In a Tuesday interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the creative dismissed the casting decision as business as usual:
Wait, but… before his friends were fellow comedy stars Chris Rock, Chris Farley, David Spade, and later Jennifer Aniston. This is a little different. This is Adam Sandler pulling in non-comedy stars to get the jobs of comedy stars. That’s 100% what people upset by nepo babies are talking about!
But according to Sammi, Adam didn’t cast them in his movie. Sunny and Sadie were attached to the role first — before they even signed on as director — and before Adam was brought on to co-star:
However, Adam WAS a producer, so it’s not like this was some situation where they were making a movie on their own and kindly decided to invite Daddy. You know, from that movie Big Daddy.
But Sammi believes the celeb kids proved their talent:
They added:
All great marks, but this is coming from the film’s director, so it’s not like
Adam Sandler is returning to the spotlight.The “Happy Gilmore”/”Billy Madison”/”Punch Drunk Love”/”Uncut Gems”/”Little Nicky” star will return to the road from Oct. 12 through Dec.
Adam Sandler is hitting the road. The 57-year-old comedian and Live Nation announced that Sandler’s embarking on “The I Missed You Tour”, a 25-city endeavour, next month.
Adam Sandler is going on tour!
Sophia Scorziello editor Adam Sandler is back on tour and hitting the road for a slate of North American comedy shows through the end of the year. Starting in October, Sandler will start his 25-city “The I Missed You Tour,” produced by Live Nation, and is set to debut a “surprise guest” at its opening show at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Oct. 12.
Adam Sandler will launch a 25-city North American tour next month, the comedian and Live Nation announced today.
Well, this is awkward…
While You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah has scored a record breaking Rotten Tomatoes score, there are some fans who are calling it out for nepotism.
Critics are loving Adam Sandler’s latest comedy.
Sunny Sandler is premiering her biggest film. “You Are So Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah” follows Sadie (played by 14 year old Sunny), a girl who alongside her best friend has long been waiting for her Bat Mitzvah, hoping for an epic party.
“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”Director Sammi Cohen told People recently how the Sandler clan got together to celebrate his now 14-year-old daughter Sunny’s big day.“What’s really funny is right before we started prepping for the film, Sunny had her actual bat mitzvah,” Cohen revealed.“So I went to that service, and we got to do the real-life bat mitzvah and then left to make the movie. It was a really fun life movie moment.”Cohen continued that the bash “felt equally as fun as the parties you see [in the film].”“It was really, really fun.
Adam Sandler just broke his own record on Rotten Tomatoes with his upcoming Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
in an emotional X (formerly Twitter) post recalling their scene together. “Such a sweet funny guy to hang out with. Loved talking to him.
Adam Sandler is reacting to the death of Bob Barker.
Jaden Thompson Hollywood stars have taken to social media to pay tribute to the late Bob Barker, who recently died at the age of 99. Barker is known as the longtime host of the game show “The Price Is Right.” Adam Sandler posted a photo of himself alongside Barker on Instagram, writing, “The man. The myth.
Bob Barker, who died Saturday in his Los Angeles home. He was 99.Among those reacting includes his one-time co-star Adam Sandler, who took to Instagram just minutes after ET confirmed the tragic news and remembered the iconic TV personality as an all-around great person. Sandler, of course, conjured up their legendary fight in the 1996 comedy classic.«The man.
K.J. Yossman “You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” is the sophomore feature from “Crush” director Sammi Cohen, but the film is very much focused on a specific junior high experience familiar to Jewish kids and their friends: the Bat Mitzvah, a coming-of-age ceremony (usually accompanied by a big party) to mark the transition into adulthood. Based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s novel of the same name, the film stars Adam Sandler alongside his wife Jackie Sandler and daughters Sunny (who plays the Bat Mitzvah girl herself Stacy Friedman) and Sadie (who plays older sister Ronnie).
Bat Mitzvah, which she thinks will open social opportunities if she throws a good party.Unfortunately, her plans go awry when she has a falling out with her best friend, Lydia (Samantha Lorraine), after Lydia kisses their mutual crush, the bland and unexceptional Andy (Dylan Hoffmann). It’s an appropriately low-stakes, realistic teen conflict, and the supporting cast is rounded out by Adam Sandler as Stacy’s dad, Danny; Sandler’s other real daughter, Sadie, as Stacy’s older sister, Ronnie; Sandler’s wife, Jackie, as Lydia’s mom; and Idina Menzel as Danny’s wife, Bree.
nepo baby! Adam Sandler’s latest movie “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” is a family affair, starring the 56-year-old’s daughters Sunny, 14, and Sadie, 17, as well as wife Jackie, 48. Streaming now on Netflix, the Sandler-produced flick is based on a 2005 novel of the same name.
Jennifer Anniston has revealed the sweet gesture that her longtime friend and two-time co-star Adam Sandler does for her. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, she said that Adam and his wife, Jackie have sent her flowers for a number of Mother’s Day’s after learning about her struggles with her fertility. She and Sandler, who have been friends “for decades” have starred alongside each other in three films.The most recent blockbuster being Murder Mystery 2 which was released earlier this year and is a sequel to the 2019 film Murder Mystery.
Maybe it’s the nature of the non-theatrical platform, maybe its streaming churn, and maybe it’s just #TooMuchContent, but as we and many pundits have noticed in recent years, Netflix film tend to come and go, never leaving any lasting cultural footprint. But given that the zeitgeist has already moved on, perhaps this is a small plea to not lose sight of the sweet and charming new awkward teen comedy, “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitsvah,” a new Happy Madison comedy starring Adam Sandler, his family and many of the familiar faces that make up his acting friend social sphere.