Big kids It is one of the blockbusters of Adam Sandler, perfect for laughing out loud and bringing out the child inside you. After thirty years, a tragic event brings together a group of friends: the basketball coach they had when they were children. Lenny, Eric, Marcus, Kurt y Rob They meet again at the funeral and decide to spend the 4th of July weekend together with their wives and children. To do so, they rent the house where years before they celebrated their epic victory in a basketball championship.
These summer days the gang of friends will show their children how they had fun when they were young and there were no mobile phones. Of course, for Lenny and his friends The passage of time does not necessarily go hand in hand with maturity.
Pooh Richardson, the NBA star who trained them for the filming
El Basketball is the axis of the film: It was the sport that brought them together when they were kids and now, three decades later, it brings them together again, and although they are a little rusty, they still remember how to handle the ball.
Unlike in the movie, in reality only Adam Sandler and Kevin James knew how to play basketball. That’s why it was necessary to resort to the help of a professional. The chosen one was Pooh Richardson, who taught the actors the techniques they needed to be able to shoot the game scenes. Richardson is a former NBA player who played for the Minnesota Timberwolveslos Indiana Pacers y Los Angeles Clippers.
Friends on and off screen
The friendship between the protagonists goes beyond the screen. With the exception of Kevin James, the actor who plays Eric Lamonsoff and with whom they met later, the rest knew each other from their time at the Saturday Night Live. For this reason, for the filming they rented a plot of land in Essex, Massachusetts overlooking Lake Chebacco, where they stayed for the entire summer of 2009 with their families.
Regarding the characters, Adam Sandler is Lenny Feder, a Hollywood artist manager who is married to Roxanne, played by Salma HayekThe couple has three children who seem to have disconnected from reality and are accustomed to a life of luxury, called Greg, Keithie and Becky. Kevin James He plays Eric Lamonsoff, a husband who tries hard to please his wife, but in front of his friends he changes his ways for fear of what they will think. Maria Bellothe actress who plays Lil in The Coyote Baris his wife Sally and the mother of his two children: Bean and Donna.
In the McKenzie family it is Deanne, the character of Maya Rudolphwho works to bring money home while her husband Kurt, represented by Chris Rocktakes care of the home and his two children, Andre and Charlotte. This makes Kurt become the laughing stock of his friends. David Spade plays Marcus Higgins, a very womanizing man; and Rob Schneider He is Rob Hilliard, a guy who obsesses over certain things to avoid any kind of emotional commitment and who has a girlfriend thirty years older than him. This latter fact causes his friends to make fun of him.
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade y Rob Schneider son ‘Niños grandes’
Adam Sandler and Dennis Dugan: a duo born for comedy
Dennis Dugan has been in charge of directing Big kidswhile the script and production have been handled by Adam Sandler. Dugan and Sandler have worked together on eight films: Big Daddy, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Chuck, The Zohan: License to Comb, Happy Gilmore, Jack and Jill, and Grown Ups 2.
In addition, Dugan also got in front of the camera in this comedy and we see him playing the arbitrator of a basketball game, a sequence that appears during the opening credits.
The tragedy that delayed the film
The idea and script for this film were ready in the mid-90s and Adam Sandler’s idea was that his friend Chris Farley interpretase a Eric Lamonsoff. Pero la iunexpected death of the actor, in 1997, The project was halted. Grown Ups was finally released in 2010. The film is now part of RTVE Play’s free film catalogue, where you will also find other films such as Five little wolves, Innocence o I give them a year.
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