The Waterboy

Adam Sandler, Al Whiting, Alan Pasqua

Despite being the constant target of gross jokes and public humiliation from the university football team players he serves, lowly water boy Bobby Boucher loves his job and thinks dispensing water to ...( read more  read more... )dehydrated athletes is life's greatest calling. However, when he is unceremoniously fired, for no reason other than pure ineptitude, Bobby gets a chance with a team that's clumsy with a football on the field as he is with a water jug on the side lines.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Frank Coraci

Released: November 6, 1998

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DVD Released: March 16, 1999

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  • October 10, 2006
    Wildly hysterical with heart behind it.
  • December 17, 2008
    "Instant Hero. Just Add Water."

    The story concerns Bobby Boucher, a Louisiana-born-and-bred kid living in the swamps with his overbearing, alligator-eating mom (Kathy Bates). Bobby is a water boy for the local college football team, and a damn good one, even good at turni... ...( read more )
  • April 21, 2008
    cant not laugh at this stupidity.
  • March 3, 2008
    Somebody get that kid a helmet!
  • February 24, 2008
    Not my type of humour.
  • May 27, 2009
    Anyone who hasn't seen this movie is crazy.This movie is funny in the typical adam sandler type of way.I own it.

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May 11, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Sandler makes the laughs go down easy, even if The Waterboy isn't exactly quality H2O. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A character whose manner and voice has the effect of fingernails on a blackboard! full review

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  • terris85017
    September 18, 2007
    (1998 Director: Frank Coraci)....Hmm...Henry Winkler as the "bad guy" ...a young & sensitive "coming of age" Adam Sanderl...This story has humor(dark hum,or perhaps?) but allows for real feeling!! NOT as hammy as it appears on the survace.. I was BORN IN THE HILLS...and the mom's (Kathy Bates) performance & manipulation by warnings of "the Devil" are remini8scent.....
  • loser1314
    July 27, 2007
    haha this is like the best fuckin movie ever!!!!!love you
  • adz1996
    February 28, 2007
    this film is hi quality H2O!
  • kamdenphillips
    June 28, 2006
    i luv this movie funny very funny
  • V4Vendetta
    June 11, 2006
    "and Vicki showed me her boobies, and I like dem too!"

    Thats the best line in the movie, it shows Bobby finally being a man and telling his mom she's wrong. Its really the climax line of the movie.

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