This completes our Sandler Sports Summer.

If you didn't like it...well, that means you have a wooden spoon and a needle dick.

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After a down-on-his-luck basketball scout discovers an extraordinary player abroad, he brings the phenom back without his team's approval.

Release date: June 3, 2022 (USA)

Director: Jeremiah Zagar

Producers: Adam Sandler, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Joe Roth, Allen Covert, Joseph Vecsey, Zack Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum

Running time: 1h 57m

MPAA rating: R

Budget: 21 million USD

The Adam Sandler Sports deep dive continues (for some reason) with his remake of the football classic: The Longest Yard!

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) lands in jail, where manipulative Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) recruits him to advise the institution's team. This turns into a lead role quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against a team of prison guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds), Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt officials trying to fix the game against them.

Release date: May 27, 2005 (USA)

Director: Peter Segal

Budget: 90 million USD, 82 million USD

Adapted from: The Longest Yard

MPAA rating: PG-13

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing International

♬ Spoiiilers sucks, it really really sucks.♫

Gatorade is better.

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Raised by his overprotective mother, Helen, Bobby Boucher Jr. is the water boy for a successful college football team coached by Red Beaulieu. When Beaulieu fires Bobby, he takes up the same position for a losing rival team, led by despairing Coach Klein. After witnessing Bobby beat up a player who teased him too much, Klein adds him to the roster as a linebacker. Soon, Klein's players are championship contenders.

Release date: November 6, 1998 (USA)

Director: Frank Coraci

Screenplay: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy

Running time: 1h 30m

MPAA rating: PG-13

Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Pappy, $Mikey, Stevie, and Josh are back in their Happy Place and reviewing Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2!

Gilmore returns to the sport of golf since his retirement after winning his first Tour Championship, to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

Initial release: July 25, 2025

Director: Kyle Newacheck

Starring: Adam Sandler; Julie Bowen; Christopher McDonald; Benny Safdie; Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; Ben Stiller

MPAA rating: PG-13

Running time: 1h 54m

Distributed by: Netflix

We're not podcasters. We're hockey players.

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All Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) has ever wanted is to be a professional hockey player. But he soon discovers he may actually have a talent for playing an entirely different sport: golf. When his grandmother (Frances Bay) learns she is about to lose her home, Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough money to buy it for her. With his powerful driving skills and foulmouthed attitude, Happy becomes an unlikely golf hero -- much to the chagrin of the well-mannered golf professionals.

Release date: February 16, 1996 (USA)

Director: Dennis Dugan

Starring: Adam Sandler; Christopher McDonald; Julie Bowen; Carl Weathers

Running time: 1h 33m

Box office: $41.4 million

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

When Superman gets drawn into conflicts at home and abroad, his actions are questioned, giving tech billionaire Lex Luthor the opportunity to get the Man of Steel out of the way for good. Will intrepid reporter Lois Lane and Superman's four-legged companion, Krypto, be able to help him before it's too late?

Release date: July 11, 2025 (USA)

Director: James Gunn

Starring: David Corenswet; Rachel Brosnahan; Nicholas Hoult; Edi Gathegi; Anthony Carrigan; Nathan Fillion; Isabela Merced

MPAA rating: PG-13

Running time: 2h 10m

Distributed by: Warner Bros.

Pappy, Stevie, Josh, Brett, Korey and Mikey review milkshake classic: There Will Be Blood!

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son HW to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainviews motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Release date: December 26, 2007 (USA)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role · See more

Story by: Upton Sinclair

Adapted from: Oil!

Running time: 2h 38m

*Note Pappy is happily hosting for Steive but for record purposes this was Stevie's pick

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Josh, Stevie and Pappy solve another Columbo mystery with help from first-time guest Jason. This episode is notable for many reasons, one being it was directed by a young Steven Spielberg.

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Lt. Columbo cannot resist the challenge of a perfect murder, a reliable alibi and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a murderous mystery writer.

Initial release: September 15, 1971

Show: Columbo

Director: Steven Spielberg

Art director: Archie J. Bacon

Cinematography: Russell Metty

Editor: John Kaufman

From Dusk Till Dawn will be 30 years old soon, but Stevie and Josh caught it at a small town Indiana theater just this past weekend!

(Shoutout Bremen Theatre in Bremen, IN!)

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On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.

Release date: January 19, 1996 (USA)

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez

Sequel: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

Budget: 19 million USD

Running time: 1h 48m

Spoilerboys wanted to find out what happens wjem you venture off the beaten Francis Ford Coppola path and go down a road less travelled — like, One from the Heart (1981).

For Coppola, this film was the direct, chronological follow-up to modern masterpiece Apocalypse Now. How much can it live up to that?

(Also "Chef" from Apocalypse now is the main character in this — will he finally take off that frizzly-lookin' army looking shit and start smoking that dope?!?)

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The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

Release date: January 15, 1982 (New York)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro, Ronald Víctor García

Budget: 26 million USD

Running time: 1h 47m