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Born in the San Francisco area of California, Rob Schneider was destined to be a comedian from an early age. He took to stand-up comedy in high school and even did gigs for local nightclubs and radio programs, giving him the practice he needed to one day share the screen with some of the most popular names in television and film, such as Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock, Drew Barrymore, Eddie Griffin, and Rachel McAdams. Following his tenure at Saturday Night Live from 1988 to 1994, his name became synonymous with The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with fellow comedians Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Chris Farley. Many of the movies in his resume feature a cameo from at least one of these comedians, likewise a number of films done by comedians from The Bad Boys of Comedy feature Schneider as well. Here are ten of the highest-grossing Rob Schneider movies of all time.
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Beginning his professional acting career in 1987, Rob Schneider now has an extensive list of impressive comedies under his belt. While still fairly early in his career, he was cast in the Home Alone sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York right alongside Macaulay Culkin. Although he didn't play a major role in this movie, it was quite comical and showed a young Rob Schneider - greedy for tips - as Cedric the bellman at the Plaza Hotel. A few other actors that helped make the movie become the success that it did were Joe Pesci, Catherine O' Hara, John Heard, and Tom Curry. The film remained a classical success, grossing $358.9 million at the box office - and there's plenty more where that came from!
Grown Ups
They say the most ironic thing about death is that it has an uncanny way of bringing people closer together. The same is true for the group of friends in the comedy film, Grown Ups. Released in 2010, the movie centers around the lives of five former high school basketball students who are joined together once again after the death of their basketball coach, Robert Ferdinando (Blake Clark). Seeking to rekindle their friendship as adults with their families, Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) invites Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider), Marcus Higgins (David Spade), Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock), and Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James) to stay at his rented lake house over the fourth of July weekend, where they learn a lot about their adult selves, as well as face their childhood fears. The film was a financial success that spawned a sequel, grossing $272.2 million at the worldwide box office.
Click
As mentioned earlier, comedians Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler tend to bounce off each other in their careers, and that includes their movies, which they randomly allow each other to have parts in. A good example of this is in the 2006 comedy, Click, which cast Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken as the lead characters. The film surrounds the life of Michael Newman (Adam Sandler), an architect who is often over-worked and bullied by his arrogant boss, John Ammer (David Hasselhoff), often causing Michael to sacrifice time with his lovely wife, Donna Newman (Kate Beckinsale) and their two children. Michael goes to Bed, Bath, and Beyond one night to purchase a universal remote, where he meets the Angel of Death, Morty (Christopher Walken) who gives him a remote that manipulates the timing of events in his life. Rob Schneider is spotted in a quick scene as Prince Habeeboo, a difficult Middle Eastern client. Click not only gave a belly full of laughs but also a message to cherish the time with your loved ones. The film ultimately grossed $237.6 million.
Big Daddy
Up next is the 1999 comedy-drama, Big Daddy. The film starts off by focusing on the uninspired life of Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler), a thirty-two-year-old man who, despite earning a degree in law, prefers to live a mediocre life working one day a week as a toll booth attendant while living off a $200,000 accident settlement. He gets a wake-up call after his girlfriend, Vanessa (Kristy Swanson) leaves him for a much older man and focused man with a "five year plan." Sonny awakes one morning to a five-year-old named Julian McGrath (Dylan and Cole Sprouse) outside his door, dropped off by a stranger for Sonny's roommate, Kevin Gerrity (Jon Stewart) after his biological mother died. Jon is away in China, so Sonny, despite having no prior parental knowledge, decides to father the child to impress Vanessa, which backfires. Rob Schneider acts as a foreign delivery guy named Nazo who is also Sonny's best friend. Against a budget of $34.4 million, the film grossed $228.6 million at the global box office.
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
Schneider has been accused of purposefully being cast in stereotypical and racist roles in the past. But that didn't stop him from playing the antagonist in the 2008 action-comedy, You Don't Mess With The Zohan. Centered on the life of an elite Israeli counter-terrorist named Zohan Dvir, he gains renown for not only his heroic missions but also his promiscuous lifestyle. However, the life of a hardened soldier loses its vigor, as Zohan dreams of pursuing his dream of becoming a hairstylist. While summoned against his arch-enemy, Fotoush "Phantom" Hakbarah (John Turturro), he takes the opportunity to fake his death and migrate to America under the alias of Scrappy Coco. Once he begins garnering attention as a hairstylist in New York, he is spotted by Salim Yousfobdal (Rob Schneider), a taxi driver who has a grudge against the Zohan over a goat. While the film's concept may have seemed offensive to many, it still managed to gross $202.9 million globally.
50 First Dates
Imagine a life where every day you awake seems the exact same as before due to short-term memory loss. Such is the fate of the Hawaiin art teacher, Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), who suffers from anterograde amnesia after a bad car accident on her father's birthday. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a marine veterinarian and ladies' man who makes shows interest in Lucy. But when she doesn't remember who is the following day, he has to woo her with his love all over again. However, Lucy's older brother, Sean Whitmore (Sean Astin) and widowed father and widowed father Marlin Whitmore (Blake Clark) dissuades Henry from pursuing Lucy. He persists, and they eventually get married and even have a family. Henry also had a close pot-smoking islander friend Ula (Rob Schneider) who helped him in his plans to win Lucy over. This isn't your average romance film, but it was enough to gross $196.3 million in international sales.
The Longest Yard
Made to be a remake of the 1974 film of the same name, The Longest Yard was released in 2005 as a sports comedy surrounding the life of Paul Crowe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL quarterback who is accused of bribery and shaving points to manipulate the victory of a team. However, he was found not guilty and placed on probation, which he violated after a drunk joyriding police chase, landing him in prison. While in prison, he is tasked by Warden Rudolph Hazen (James Cromwell) to train a group of convicts to rival the guards in a football game. Assisting him in this task is Caretaker (Chris Rock) who Paul befriended while in prison. Schneider has a short cameo toward the end of the movie as Punky. Other noteworthy actors in the movie include Burt Reynolds, Terry Crews, Steve Austin, William Fichtner, Tracy Morgan, Nelly, and former NFL player Michael Irvin. Ultimately, the film grossed $191.5 million.
The Waterboy
Growing up under the shadow of his overprotective and overbearing mother Helen (Kathy Bates), Bobby Boucher Jr. (Adam Sandler) often feels out of place and socially awkward; and his stuttering speech impediment didn't make it any better. After he is fired from the Cougar's football team as their waterboy, Bobby turns to the head coach of the Mud Dogs, Coach Kelin (Henry Winkler) for employment and is made the losing team's new waterboy. The team players bully and ridicule Bobby, who is encouraged to stand up for himself by Coach Klein. Fueled by rage from years of bullying, he viciously tackles the team's quarterback, which impresses the coach. When approached to play on the team, Bobby's mother declines, seeing the sport as dangerous. As his fame rises as a linebacker, he attracts a new girlfriend, Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk), who his domineering mother also disapproves of. It wouldn't be an Adam Sandler comedy without including his pal Rob Schneider, who has a small role as a local townsperson. The Waterboy was a good laugh, grossing $190.1 million worldwide.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
A debt owed to a friend can sometimes land you in compromising situations. And in the 2007 buddy comedy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, shows how far a promise to a friend can go. After Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) narrowly escapes death by the hand of his friend Larry Valentine (Kevin James) on a collapsed building floor during a fire response, the NYC firefighters promise to do anything for each other. Larry is a widowed father of two, and when he tries to increase his life insurance policy following the near-death encounter in the burned building, realizes that his children can't be primary beneficiaries due to an issue with his wife's paperwork. He learns that it can be possible with a domestic partner. With no other woman in his life since his wife's passing, he forces Chuck to hold up his end of the bargain by becoming his domestic partner. They get married by an Asian priest named Morris Takechi (Rob Schneider), suggested by their lawyer, Alex McDonough (Jessica Biel), to who Chuck becomes strongly attracted. But the insurance investigators are skeptical of their new "relationship." As their gay status becomes popularized, they are shunned by the other firefighters. While only a comedy, the film subtly touched on many political and social issues, grossing $185.7 million at the box office.
Demolition Man
One of Rob Schneider's first major films was the action-sci-fi film, Demolition Man, released in 1993. The film focuses on two mortal enemies, Seargent John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and an ingenious psychopathic criminal named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) who are both cryogenically frozen in a 1996 California Cryo-Penitentiary for the death of innocent civilians. When Phoenix is thawed to attend a parole hearing in 2032, he escapes police custody in a new world order where the violence of his time is no longer tolerated in society's peaceful utopia. Lieutenant Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) and Office Zachary Lamb (Bill Cobbs) deduce that the only person equipped to capture Phoenix is John Spartan, who is also thawed and released. Officer Erwin (Rob Schneider) is also a part of the futuristic LAPD force, whose jokes don't sit well with Spartan. The "better-than-average" film grossed $159 million globally. We also see Stallone and Snipes pair up again for The Expendables movie years later, which was also a massive box office success.
Sources: reelviews.net, Hollywood Reporter, Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert
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