Actor
Adam SandlerFollow
34 films•1994–2025•Comedy · Romance · Drama
Avg critics38%
Avg audience61%
Avg domestic$89.7M
Domestic
$2.87B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$5.20B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$25.7M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hotel Transylvania 2 | 2015 | $48.5M | $169.7M | 3.50x | $474.8M | A- | 55% | #17 |
 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | 2018 | $44.1M | $167.5M | 3.80x | $527.4M | A- | 60% | #20 |
 Big Daddy | 1999 | $41.5M | $163.5M | 3.90x | $228.6M | — | 39% | — |
 Grown Ups | 2010 | $40.5M | $162.0M | 4.00x | $271.0M | B | 10% | #15 |
 The Waterboy | 1998 | $39.4M | $161.5M | 4.10x | $190.2M | — | 32% | — |
 The Longest Yard | 2005 | $47.6M | $158.0M | 3.32x | $191.0M | A- | 31% | #12 |
 Hotel Transylvania | 2012 | $42.5M | $148.3M | 3.49x | $377.1M | A- | 45% | #19 |
 Click | 2006 | $40.0M | $137.0M | 3.43x | $241.0M | B+ | 34% | #13 |
 Anger Management | 2003 | $42.2M | $136.0M | 3.21x | $196.0M | C+ | 42% | #13 |
 Grown Ups 2 | 2013 | $41.5M | $134.0M | 3.22x | $247.0M | B | 8% | #21 |
 Mr. Deeds | 2002 | $37.2M | $126.0M | 3.40x | $171.0M | A- | 23% | #19 |
 50 First Dates | 2004 | $39.9M | $121.0M | 3.03x | $198.0M | A | 45% | #15 |
 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | 2007 | $34.2M | $120.0M | 3.51x | $187.0M | B+ | 15% | #23 |
 Bedtime Stories | 2008 | $27.5M | $110.0M | 4.01x | $213.0M | A | 27% | #24 |
 Just Go with It | 2011 | $30.5M | $103.0M | 3.38x | $215.0M | B | 20% | #27 |
 You Don't Mess with the Zohan | 2008 | $38.5M | $100.0M | 2.60x | $204.0M | A | 37% | #29 |
 The Wedding Singer | 1998 | $18.9M | $80.2M | 4.30x | $123.3M | — | 72% | — |
 Pixels | 2015 | $24.0M | $78.7M | 3.28x | $243.5M | B+ | 17% | #38 |
 Jack and Jill | 2011 | $25.0M | $74.2M | 2.97x | $150.0M | B | 3% | #47 |
 Funny People | 2009 | $22.7M | $51.9M | 2.30x | $71.9M | B- | 69% | — |
 Uncut Gems | 2019 | $537K | $50.0M | 5.20x | $50.0M | — | 91% | — |
 Blended | 2014 | $14.3M | $46.3M | 3.20x | $128.0M | A- | 15% | — |
 Spanglish | 2004 | $8.8M | $42.0M | 4.80x | $54.3M | — | 54% | — |
 Little Nicky | 2000 | $16.1M | $39.4M | 2.50x | $58.3M | — | 21% | — |
 Happy Gilmore | 1996 | $10.1M | $39.1M | — | $41.4M | — | 66% | — |
 That's My Boy | 2012 | $13.5M | $36.9M | 2.70x | $58.9M | — | 20% | — |
 Billy Madison | 1995 | $6.6M | $25.5M | 3.80x | — | — | 40% | — |
 Eight Crazy Nights | 2002 | $9.4M | $23.6M | 2.50x | $23.9M | — | 13% | — |
 Bulletproof | 1996 | $6.0M | $21.2M | 3.50x | $22.2M | — | 8% | — |
 Reign Over Me | 2007 | $7.5M | $19.7M | 2.60x | $20.1M | — | 64% | — |
 Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | $367K | $17.8M | 4.40x | $24.6M | — | 79% | — |
 Airheads | 1994 | $1.9M | $5.0M | 2.60x | — | — | 32% | — |
 Happy Gilmore 2 | 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | 61% | — |
 Murder Mystery | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | 43% | — |
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Film by film
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 0.9 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.0x
$5.11B worldwide on $1.71B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.74BInternational $2.36B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven8.3x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#9Biggest September openingsHotel Transylvania 2$48.5M#10Biggest September openingsHotel Transylvania$42.5M#18Biggest April openingsAnger Management$42.2M#18Biggest openings not at #1The Longest Yard$47.6M
4 placings across 3 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.