Billy Madison (1995)

In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.

Director:

Tamra Davis

Writers:

Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler

Stars:

Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adam Sandler	...	Billy Madison
Darren McGavin	...	Brian Madison
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras	...	Veronica Vaughn (as Bridgette Wilson)
Bradley Whitford	...	Eric Gordon
Josh Mostel	...	Principal Max Anderson
Norm MacDonald	...	Frank
Mark Beltzman	...	Jack
Larry Hankin	...	Carl Alphonse
Theresa Merritt	...	Juanita
Dina Platias	...	Miss Lippy
Hrant Alianak	...	Pete
Vincent Marino	...	Cook
Jack Mather	...	Ted 'Old Man' Clemens
Christopher Kelk	...	Rollo the Janitor
Marc Donato	...	Nodding 1st Grader

Storyline

Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.

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Plot Keywords:

teacher | family business | education | school teacher | high school | 

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Taglines:

Billy Madison's going back to school... Way back.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language and crude humor

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English French Spanish

Release Date:

10 February 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bili Medison

Filming Locations:

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$25,588,750 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Robert Simonds Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

All of the names on Danny McGrath's People To Kill List (except for Billy Madison) are those of the crew, directors, or producers of the movie

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Goofs

When Billy is dialing the phone to call the guy he picked on in high school, you hear a phone ringing. This is part of the song being played.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Billy Madison: [sings] # Suntan lotion is good for me. / You protect me, hee-hee-hee. #

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Connections

Referenced in The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live (1998)

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Soundtracks

"Indora"
Written and Produced by Elton Ahi (as Elton F. Ahi)

User Reviews

So Bad I Am Still Contemplating Suicide, Five Years Later

I'm not going to mince words. This movie made me put a gun in my mouth. (No bullets around, luckily.) Adam Sandler is an utterly worthless human being...his body of films have done more damage to the collective level of human intelligence than all the books burned by every fascist regime of the twentieth century. I hate him. Hate hate hate him.

I did not enjoy this movie.

Could someone, somewhere, please explain why they think Sandler is funny? Please? I am totally mystified. It isn't that I am some ivory tower snob, I actually found TOMMY BOY somewhat watchable and even chuckled once or twice at DIRTY WORK (well...maybe once...). But Sandler is just atrociously unfunny in everything he does. I laughed once during this whole movie. _Once_. The scene where he pulls up to school and Billy Squier is on his stereo. That's it. One three-second chuckle does not even begin to atone for the concentrated, merciless stupidity of the rest of this movie.

If you said this movie was hilarious, I probably think you are an idiot.