''Little Nicky'' is a 2000 American

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film directed by Steven Brill, written by

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, and Brill, and starring Sandler in the title role,

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, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.,

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, and

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with supporting roles by

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, and

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. The film depicts the son of Satan and an angel who is tasked with returning his two brothers to Hell and preventing them from destroying the boundary between good and evil on Earth. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a

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, grossing $58 million against an $80–85 million budget.

Plot

With his 10,000-year reign coming to an end,

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must decide which of his three sons will succeed him as ruler of

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. Adrian is the most devious, Cassius is the cruelest and Nicky is the kindest. Nicky has had a

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and a disfigured jaw since Cassius hit him in the face with a shovel. Satan assembles his sons to tell them that as they are not yet ready to succeed him, he will continue ruling Hell. Angered by this decision, Adrian and Cassius travel to Earth to create a new Hell by possessing religious and political leaders in

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. As they leave, they freeze the entrance to Hell, preventing more evil souls from entering and causing Satan to begin to disintegrate. Stanley the Gatekeeper informs Satan of this and Satan punishes him by growing breasts on his head and giving him to his father

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. Now too weak to stop Adrian and Cassius, he sends Nicky to Earth with a silver flask that traps whoever drinks from it inside. Nicky has difficulty surviving on Earth and is killed several times, landing in Hell and returning to New York each time. While learning how to eat and sleep, he meets a

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talking bulldog named Mr. Beefy, rents an apartment with an actor named Todd and falls in love with a design student named Valerie. Nicky encounters Adrian but fails to capture him and scares Valerie away. Nicky then observes Cassius on television possessing the referee of a

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game. Nicky arrives at the game and successfully tricks Cassius into the flask. Satanist metalheads John and Peter swear loyalty to Nicky. That evening, Nicky apologizes to Valerie and they reconcile. The following day, Adrian possesses the Chief of the New York City Police Department and accuses Nicky of mass murder. Nicky has Todd kill him so he can go back to Hell and ask his father for advice. However, Satan has trouble hearing because his ears have fallen off, and his assistants are panicking because the deadline to capture Adrian and Cassius is approaching. Back on Earth, Nicky and his friends devise a plan to capture Adrian in a subway station. Adrian discovers their trick and in the ensuing fight, grabs Valerie and dives onto the track as a train approaches, but Nicky throws her aside, leaving himself and Adrian to be killed by the train. Arriving in Hell just minutes before midnight, Adrian begins taking over Hell by pushing what remains of his father aside, sitting on the throne, rising to

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, and starting a riotous party. Meanwhile, Nicky wakes up in Heaven as a reward for sacrificing himself and meets his mother Holly, an

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who tells him that he can defeat Adrian with the "

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" that he inherited from her. After she gives him a mysterious orb, he confronts Adrian in Central Park. Adrian appears to win the battle by transforming into a

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and locking Nicky in the flask. However, Nicky escapes from the flask and shatters the orb, causing

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to appear, bite off Adrian's head, and spit it into the flask. With his brothers captured, Nicky prepares to save his father. He and Valerie express their love for each other and she kills him. In Hell, Satan regains his body and suggests Nicky stay with Valerie to maintain things in the middle while stating to Holly that he still loves her. In the presence of Nicky and Satan, Lucifer shoves the flask containing Adrian and Cassius up

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's rump. One year later, Nicky and Valerie live in New York with their infant son named Zachariah who has demonic powers. A postscript revealed what happened to everyone: * Valerie accidentally struck Nicky with a shovel which fixed his jaw disfigurement. "He's still no

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". * Zachariah was suspended from nursery school after turning another kid's bottle of milk into moose urine. * Todd started his one-man show on Broadway which only a transvestite named Andrew/Nipples who attended Adrian's riotous party attended. * Mr. Beefy reunited with his rat girlfriend Heather where they got married last April and had kids. * Stanley the Gatekeeper and Gary the Monster also had kids of their own. * Satan and Holly have been unable to deal with their long-distance relationship after dating for a while. Satan has been romantically linked to both the

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. Holly immediately fell in love with her new aerobics instructor....

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. * Using their $25,000,000.00 reward money, John and Peter purchased

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's old touring airplane, stocked it with cake, beer and great tunes, died in a plane crash soon after takeoff due to a lack of a pilot, and ended up happily in Hell as honored residents who have been given Nicky's old bedroom to party in.

Cast

as Nicky, the youngest son of Satan and an angel named Holly. *

as Valerie Veran, a design student who Nicky falls for. *

, the ruler of Hell, the father of Nicky, Adrian, and Cassius. *

as Adrian, the devious firstborn of Satan. *

as Todd, a failed actor who takes Nicky in as a roommate. * Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. as Cassius, the brutish second son of Satan. *

as Stanley "Tit-Head", the Gatekeeper of Hell, whose namesake originates from Satan manifesting breasts on top of his head as punishment for failing to stop Adrian and Cassius from leaving Hell. *

as The Peeper, a pervert who gets caught spying on Mrs. Dunleavy from a tree. He is killed by Scotty after he slingshots a rock at him, condemning to Hell where he is chased by giant horny birds. *

as the unnamed Chief of Police whom Adrian possesses. *

as a blind deacon who senses Nicky's presence as a sign of the apocalypse. *

, Nicky, Adrian, and Cassius's grandfather and Satan's father who created Hell. *

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as the voice of Mr. Beefy, a possessed bulldog and an old friend of Satan that Nicky befriends. * Peter Dante as Peter, a Satanist metalhead and friend of John who befriends Nicky. * Jonathan Loughran as John, a Satanist metalhead who befriends Nicky. *

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as Jimmy, a demon who is one of Satan's advisors. *

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as a Street Vendor who briefly steals Nicky's flask. * Lewis Arquette as a cardinal *

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as Whitey Duvall, the referee. Character credited as "Referee". * Ellen Cleghorne as a mother at the Globetrotters Game * John Farley as a Human Dartboard *

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as Andrew/Nipples, a transvestite that attended Adrian's riotous party in Central Park * Leah Lail as Christa *

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as himself, he tries to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for a

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victory, only to be declined when Satan considers himself too good to claim his soul. *

as himself, he is summoned by Nicky to bite the head off of Adrian's bat form. *

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as himself *

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as a Townie who attends Adrian's riotous party in Central Park and witnesses Nicky's fight with Adrian. Schneider reprises his role from '' The Waterboy''. *

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as an Alumni Hall Announcer * Jackie Titone as Jenna *

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as Mayor Randolph, the

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that Cassius possesses. *

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as himself *

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as Derick "Chubbs" Peterson, a former pro-golfer who is now a dance instructor in Heaven. Weathers reprises his role from ''

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'' where his accidental death occurred. *

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as himself, he gets covered by bees twice in Central Park with the first one caused by Adrian and the second one caused by Nicky. *

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as Holly, an angel who is Nicky's mother. * Laura Harring as Mrs. Veronique Dunleavy, a woman who is spied upon by the Peeper * Isaiah Griffin as Scotty Dunleavy, the son of Mrs. Dunleavy. * Christopher Carroll as

, head of the

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, who is condemned to Hell, dressed as a French maid, and routinely has large pineapples forced into his anus by Satan * Joseph S. Griffo as an Evil Little Person * Michael Deak as Gary the Monster **

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as the vocal effects of Gary the Monster * Fred Wolf as a Harlem Globetrotters fan. * Radio Man as himself (deleted scene)

Reception

Box office

It opened at #2 at the North American box office making $16 million

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in its opening weekend, behind ''

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'', which was on its second consecutive week at the top spot. The film went on to earn $39.5 million domestically and another $18.8 million worldwide, bringing the total to $58 million.

Critical response

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, ''Little Nicky'' has an approval rating of 22% based on reviews from 114 critics, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The site's consensus reads: "Despite the presence of a large, talented cast, the jokes in ''Little Nicky'' are dumb, tasteless, and not that funny, and Adam Sandler's character is grating to watch." On

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it has a score of 38% based on reviews from 29 critics. Audiences polled by

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gave the film a grade "B" on a scale of A to F. Comedian and former ''

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'' host Michael J. Nelson named the film the worst comedy ever made.

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of the ''

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'' gave the film a score of two-and-a-half stars out of four, describing ''Little Nicky'' as "the best Sandler movie to date" and the Nicky character as "intriguing", while at the same time lamenting Sandler's lack of finesse and vocal quirks. In 2020, Evan Saathoff of ''

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'' argued against the characterization of ''Little Nicky'' as being "a blight on andler'sfilmography", writing that Sandler "certainly never got ''this'' wild again, not in one of his own films at least."

Accolades

The film was nominated for five awards at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (

), Worst Supporting Actress (

), Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. It lost in all categories to '' Battlefield Earth'' starring

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. At the 2000 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the film received seven total nominations: Worst Picture (lost to ''Battlefield Earth''), Worst Actor for Sandler (lost to John Travolta), Worst On-Screen Couple for Sandler and that unfunny bulldog (lost to John Travolta and everyone in the galaxy for ''Battlefield Earth''), Most Annoying Fake Accent for Sandler, Worst On-Screen Hairstyle for Sandler (lost to both Travolta and

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for ''Battlefield Earth''), Most Annoying Product Placement for Popeyes Chicken (lost to

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and Wilson in ''

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''), and Most Unfunny Comic Relief for the painfully unfunny talking bulldog (lost to

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for ''

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'' and ''Charlie's Angels''). As noted, its only win was for Most Annoying Fake Accent.

Home media

''Little Nicky'' was released on

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and

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on April 24, 2001 by

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. The DVD includes two audio commentaries, a special feature dedicated to rock/metal music, the music video "School of Hard Knocks" by P.O.D., and deleted scenes. Scream Factory released the film on Blu Ray for the first time on August 8, 2023, with all the special features from the DVD release & a new master from a 2K scan.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album, ''Little Nicky (Music from the Motion Picture)'', was released October 31, 2000, through Maverick Records and featured a lineup that leaned heavily toward Maverick recording artists that included

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, Insolence,

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and Ünloco. ;Notes * Tracks 8 and 12 were not featured in the film Some songs featured in the film, but excluded from the soundtrack, were " Ladies' Night" by

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; "

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" by

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; " Flying High Again", " Mama, I'm Coming Home", and " No More Tears" by

; " Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" by

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; "Now or Never" by

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; "

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" by

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; " Two of Hearts" by Stacey Q; " Southtown" and " Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" by P.O.D.; " Rock You Like a Hurricane" by

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; and " Highway to Hell" by

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. "Solve" by

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is the image song for the Japanese release.

Video game

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game based on the film was released on December 15, 2000.

References

External links

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