The Waterboy

A football team water boy discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.

• Director: Frank Coraci
• Genre:Comedy / Sport
• Runtime:86 minutes

Cast

Adam Sandler : Robert ‘Bobby’ Boucher Jr.
Kathy Bates : Helen ‘Mama’ Boucher
Fairuza Balk : Vicki Vallencourt
Henry Winkler : Coach Klein
Jerry Reed : Coach Red Beaulieu

Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher (pronounced “Boo-SHAY”), a socially inept (but also intelligent), stuttering, water boy with hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and his mother’s (Kathy Bates) excessive sheltering. He was the water boy for the fictitious University of Louisiana Cougars[2][3] (a name and mascot bearing a strong resemblance to the Louisiana State University Tigers) for the past 18 years (he joined sometime around the 1980-81 season), but the players tormented him, and the team’s head coach, Coach Red Beaulieu, (Jerry Reed) fired him for “disrupting” his team’s practices. His attempt to become the new waterboy of his favorite wrestler, Captain Insano (Paul Wight, aka The Big Show), is unsuccessful because he reveals that he is in fact 31 years old. As a result, Captain Insano and the TV presenter laugh and Bobby, hurt, hangs up. He later goes to Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), coach of the fictitious “South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs”, and volunteers to work as the team’s water boy for free after seeing the filthy water that the coach provides his players.

During his first few hours of being waterboy for the Mud Dogs, one of the players, Lyle Robideaux (Jonathan Loughran), spits into the water can. A flashback is then seen when the waterboy was a young kid working for the Cougars. Coach Beaulieu refuses the right for the waterboy to retaliate against one of his players for spitting in the cooler. Coach Klein notices his powerful potential and encourages Bobby to stand up for himself instead of letting the players walk all over him. After Gee Grenouille (Peter Dante), the team’s quarterback taunts him, Bobby then sees flashbacks of the people that also made his life a living hell (to name a few: Greg Meaney, Coach Red Beaulieu, Captain Insano and the TV host, Jim Simmonds). Bobby utters the phrase “Stop makin’ fun of me!” signaling that enough is enough.

Bobby then effortlessly runs onto the field, grunting and growling in sheer anger and tackles Grenouille, shocking the whole team and prompting Coach Klein to put him on the field, with positive results. Despite his overprotective mother’s disapproval, he secretly continues to play football, and also secretly goes to school. He uses his anger (also known as “The Tackling Fuel”) to tackle the opposing players by pretending they’re the people who made fun of him throughout his life (Coach Beaulieu, his mom, the mud dog’s Quarterback who called him “needle dick”, etc.). He quickly becomes one of the most feared linebackers in college football and love interest of Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk). They play so well with Bobby on the team that they make it to the Bourbon Bowl against the Cougars. Read more

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