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By ceding the spotlight to his daughters and settling into dorky-dad mode, Sandler has officially made his highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes.
would follow suit). Either way, Sandler makes it clear that his role in this story is a supporting one. He leaves the jittery, juvenile energy to his kids and shifts to a mode befitting the father in a narrative about Jewish womanhood.
Sandler is Danny Friedman, a doting, dorky dad who pretends to spill coffee on himself just to coax a smile out of his downtrodden daughter. He wears bathrobes to the movie theater, quibbles over which tampons to buy, and offers John Hughes-worthy advice about growing up. The man-child schtick is non-existent; there’s not acameo to be found. In depicting something closer to his current reality, Sandler plays in the proper key to let his daughters, and the movie itself, sing. The movie itself is at home in Sandler’s cinematic legacy of underdogs finding their place in the world. “I just have a natural part of my brain that feels like I don’t belong here,” helast October of the running theme across his four-decade career. “This feeling uncomfortable and loser stuff I’ve been doing for years, it’s in me.” The irony, of course, has been that playing losers has made Sandler a winner— and now his daughters, who will also reunite with their dad for the upcoming animated film, are now part of the victory. Until now, Sandler has long been devoted to working with his friends—but future success may rely on keeping it in the family.
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