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All About

Adam Sandler

Billy Madison (1995)

THE ROLE The lazy, boorish, 20-something title character, who tries to prove he's worthy of inheriting his father's hotel empire by getting some education: repeating grades 1-12 all over again, that is.

WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''Even on its own dim-bulb terms, this runt of a comedy never locates its central joke: Is it that Billy the child-man doofus doesn't fit in with his pint-size peers or that he fits in all too well?''