July 20, 2003
Happy Birthday to me!
Yesterday was my birthday. Just one of the many wonderful presents Maryellen got me was a videocassette copy of the movie Big Daddy. In the movie, Adam Sandler plays an emotionally stunted 30-something whose girlfriend leaves him because she thinks he will never grow up. To show her how mature he is, Sandler decides to adopt a 5 year old boy. When the girlfriend is not impressive with this half baked plan, he is left to try to figure out how to raise this boy by himself.
Hmmmm . . . I wonder if Maryellen is trying to say something?
Posted by peter at July 20, 2003 02:05 PMAs far as I remember, Big Daddy is about a young man who forsakes the materialistic hyperprofessional life that his friends have chosen. He eventually comes to see that his true calling is fatherhood. That's a generous, but accurate, synopsis.
Posted by: Geoff at July 21, 2003 12:26 PMHAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER!!!!!
Posted by: jessica at July 21, 2003 01:08 PMHmmmmm...
How can one movie have two such wildly different interpretations?
Geoff's review is more appealing. And that view of life makes more sense to me in my 60s than it may have in my 30s.
And, of course, Happy Birthday to Peter!!
Posted by: mike, pgg's dad at July 23, 2003 05:20 AM