Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Adam Sandler’s 10 Best Dramatic Roles, According To IMDb

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Adam Sandler may best be known for his work as a comedian, but he’s got the acting chops for drama too. Here’s his best dramatic roles, per IMDb.

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Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Adam Sandler is one of the wealthiest people in Hollywood, and for good reason. Since being part of an epic Saturday Night Live cast in the early 90s, he’s strung together a career that has included phases as a comedy blockbuster, a rom-com charmer, and, most recently, as a Netflix go-t0.

Sandler is also one of the goofiest people in Hollywood, even for a comedian. One of his signature bits famously involves little more than making funny fingers and babbling sounds. Yet, when he has been occasionally put in a position to flex his more refined thespian muscles, he has delivered rewardingly.

10 Bulletproof (5.8)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Damon Wayans is the police escort to Adam Sandler’s dangerous criminal in Bulletproof, an action-comedy typical of its era. While prioritizing laughs over suspense, it nonetheless requires Sandler to wield a gun, sprint, and act tough. In the remainder of this list, there won’t be an entry that proved Sandler-casters wrong.

Bulletproof, however, was ill-advised. Adam Sandler had only just departed from SNL and looks uncomfortable in his role. With Drew Barrymore in his next movie, The Wedding Singer, he famously found more chemistry.

9 Funny People (6.3)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

While they have since developed distinct comedy collectives, Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow were once roommates. In their time breaking into the stand-up and comedy writing world, Apatow surely saw much of Sandler’s ridiculousness, but also a sincere side, which he put to work in this film that co-stars Seth Rogen.

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Sandler is George Simmons, a massively successful comedian (familiar territory for the actor) who has something of an existential crisis after a cancer scare. While it incorporates plenty of jokes, for many Funny People was too far on the serious end of Apatow’s already-long works.

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8 Spanglish (6.4)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

As once-director of a Jack Nicholson Oscar performance, James L. Brooks has an eye for adding turmoil to humor to produce relatability. Adam Sandler is his vehicle here, and he is sufficiently human without losing the aspects of his personality which make him a household name.

Spanglish ruminates pleasantly on a cast of characters in Mexico. The combination of flawed personas and idyllic scenery continues to be winning in Hollywood.

7 Click (6.4)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

A remote control for life sounds like the pitch for one of Adam Sandler’s more uproarious movies – like a funny costume arranged onto a paused bully. Click, however, is one of the more tear-jerking of Sandler’s entire oeuvre.

As newly-omniscient Michael Newman, Sandler gets more perspective than laughs, and his experiences of grief and regret burst from the screen. Another ham-turned-artist, Henry Winkler, provides the film’s saddest scene.

6 The Longest Yard (6.4)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Suddenly swinging dramatic is a testament to Adam Sandler’s surprising range. He can sing and be romantic as well as he can play football doofus Bobby Boucher. Still, it was a bold casting to pick Sandler for the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard. While it’s a comedy sports film, the original’s Burt Reynolds screams athletic machismo far louder than Sandler.

The payoff was rich yet again. Alongside a fun cast including rapper Nelly, NFL legend Michael Irvin, and Reynolds himself, the prison romp is worth a revisit. Sandler is humorous through plenty of it but also is believable as a criminal, quarterback, and friend.

5 Men, Women & Children (6.7)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Like any entertainer who has achieved true career longevity, Sandler uses getting older to his advantage. The slow movements and tired eyes of such a known vibrant joker resonate with anyone who has ever felt they’ve lost a step. He is a father of two in real-life, and as Don Truby in Men, Women & Children, you’d believe it.

The film is charming and filled with talent, but falls victim to being an early adopter in depicting modern technology onscreen (its theme). While it’s impressive from Sandler, audiences didn’t appreciate an entire movie acting like their dad.

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4 The Meyerowitz Stories (6.9)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

The most serious (and most taken seriously) release from Adam Sandler’s Netflix megadeal so far has been this family ensemble directed by Noah Baumbach. Sandler joins a worthy cast of big names who similarly have dual comedy and drama abilities: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller

The premise of an adult family being brought together is familiar. The performances and scenes are original. Baumbach would go on to follow this with the Oscar darling Marriage Story.

3 Punch Drunk Love (7.3)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Paul Thomas Anderson has directed nine Academy-Award-nominated performances, including both of those brought to his screen by the towering Daniel Day-Lewis. At some point around the turn of the century, he fingered Adam Sandler as his next iconic character.

In Punch Drunk Love, Sandler takes advantage of his over-the-top theatrics that can quickly and easily be transformed into quiet vulnerability as the psychologically-overwhelmed Barry Egan. It’s a film charming and enjoyable as it is troubling and insightful.

2 Reign Over Me (7.4)

Adam Sandlers 10 Best Dramatic Roles According To IMDb

Reign Over Me falls into the niche category of 9/11 films. The title based on a The Who song, it follows two former college roommates coping with the tragedy from different perspectives. Hope is presented through their rekindled friendship, but it’s hard to shake the looming darkness.

Across from talented journeyman Don Cheadle, Adam Sandler is tormented and complex in this role. The movie was largely overlooked upon release, but its position here above works from Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach says something about how it has aged.

1 Uncut Gems (7.5)

When Billy Madison came out, Josh and Benny Safdie were around ten years old. In the interim, the pair have become an indie directing force to be reckoned with, contributing first to the revitalization of Robert Pattinson’s career with Good Time in 2017 and following that up with 2019’s beloved Uncut Gems.

Adam Sandler puts on an all-time memorable performance as Howard Ratner, a reckless and skeezy gambler involved in an escalating series of heart-pounding scumbag mishaps. If you haven’t seen the film, which just hit Netflix, yet, you’ve certainly seen the memes.

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