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Little Nicky
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
2000 · Directed by Steven Brill · 90 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
If your father was the Devil and your mother was an angel, you'd be messed up too.
Plot
With his 10,000-year reign coming to an end, Satan must decide which of his three sons will succeed him as ruler of Hell. Adrian is the most devious, Cassius is the cruelest and Nicky is the kindest. Nicky has had a speech impediment and a disfigured jaw since Cassius hit him in the face with a shovel. Satan assembles his sons to tell them that as they are not yet ready to succeed him, he will continue ruling Hell.
Angered by this decision, Adrian and Cassius travel to Earth to create a new Hell by possessing religious and political leaders in New York City. As they leave, they freeze the entrance to Hell, preventing more evil souls from entering and causing Satan to begin to disintegrate. Stanley the Gatekeeper informs Satan of this and Satan punishes him by growing breasts on his head and giving him to his father Lucifer. Now too weak to stop Adrian and Cassius, he sends Nicky to Earth with a silver flask that traps whoever drinks from it inside.
Nicky has difficulty surviving on Earth and is killed several times, landing in Hell and returning to New York each time. While learning how to eat and sleep, he meets a possessed talking bulldog named Mr. Beefy, rents an apartment with an actor named Todd and falls in love with a design student named Valerie. Nicky encounters Adrian but fails to capture him and scares Valerie away. Nicky then observes Cassius on television possessing the referee of a Harlem Globetrotters game. Nicky arrives at the game and successfully tricks Cassius into the flask. Satanist metalheads John and Peter swear loyalty to Nicky. That evening, Nicky apologizes to Valerie and they begin a relationship after he reveals who he is and why he's on Earth.
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Crew
- Written by: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, Steven Brill
- Cinematography: Theo van de Sande
- Edited by: Jeff Gourson
- Music: Teddy Castellucci, Adam Jeremy Williams
- Production design: Perry Andelin Blake
- Produced by: Jack Giarraputo, Robert Simonds
Cast
- Adam Sandler as Nicky
- Patricia Arquette as Valerie Veran
- Harvey Keitel as Dad
- Rhys Ifans as Adrian
- Tommy Lister Jr. as Cassius
- Rodney Dangerfield as Lucifer
- Allen Covert as Todd
- Peter Dante as Peter
- Jonathan Loughran as John
- Robert Smigel as Beefy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, Happy Madison Productions, Robert Simonds Productions
- Budget: $85,000,000
- Box office: $58,292,295
- Themes: new york city, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, hell, devil's son, satan, demon, bulldog, father son relationship, familiar
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