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The Waterboy
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.
1998 · Directed by Frank Coraci · 90 min · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
You can mess with him. But don't mess with his water.
Crew
- Screenplay: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy
- Cinematography: Steven Bernstein
- Edited by: Tom Lewis
- Production design: Perry Andelin Blake
- Produced by: Jack Giarraputo, Robert Simonds
Cast
- Adam Sandler as Bobby Boucher
- Kathy Bates as Mama Boucher
- Henry Winkler as Coach Klein
- Fairuza Balk as Vicki Vallencourt
- Jerry Reed as Red Beaulieu
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Derek Wallace
- Blake Clark as Farmer Fran
- Peter Dante as Gee Grenouille
- Jonathan Loughran as Lyle Robideaux
- Al Whiting as Casey Bugge
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures
- Budget: $23,000,000
- Box office: $185,991,646
- Themes: sports, american football, stutter, louisiana, social outcast, ridicule, deserted by husband, low self esteem, waterboy, college american football
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