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The Waterboy
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4363
- IMDb #4093
- Google retired #818
- Rotten Tomatoes #3622
- Metacritic #3881
- Letterboxd #4056
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4636
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2467
- Metacritic Critics #4205
- Metacritic Audience #3028
- Criticker #3326
- Kinopoisk #3269
- AlloCiné #4916
- Trakt #3721
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 31, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 36, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A good-natured but simple-minded waterboy for a college football team has been bullied his entire life. A new coach discovers the boy has a unique talent for tackling, channeling his pent-up anger into incredible defensive prowess. He is recruited to join the team, where he becomes an unlikely football star, much to the shock of his overprotective mother and his former tormentors.
Details
- Director
- Frank Coraci
- Writers
- Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Released
- 6 November 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $23.0M
- Box office
- $186.0M
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Cast
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