''Little Nicky'' is a 2000 American

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directed by Steven Brill, written by Brill,

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, and Tim Herlihy, and starring Sandler in the title role,

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, Rhys Ifans, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., and Rodney Dangerfield. 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 $58.3 million against an $80–85 million budget.

Plot

With his 10,000 year reign coming to an end and after torturing

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by shoving a

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up his rump,

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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. Adrian and Cassius claim that Nicky's mother is a goat and torment him by controlling his body with their minds. 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

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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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. To stop Adrian and Cassius, he sends Nicky to Earth with a silver

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that traps whoever drinks from it inside. Nicky has difficulty surviving on Earth and he is killed several times, landing in Hell and returning to New York each time. While learning how to eat and sleep, he meets a possessed, talking

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game. Nicky arrives at the game and successfully tricks Cassius into the flask.

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metalheads John and Peter swear loyalty to Nicky. That evening, Nicky apologizes to Valerie and they reconcile. The following day, Adrian possesses the

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of the

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and accuses Nicky of

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. Nicky has Todd kill him so he can go back to Hell and ask his father for advice, but 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

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, but 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 and sitting on the throne, rising to

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, and starting a riotous party. Meanwhile, Nicky wakes up in

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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 where he covers

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in bees. Adrian appears to win the battle by transforming into a bat and locking Nicky in the flask. However, Nicky escapes from the flask and shatters the orb, causing

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to appear, bite Adrian's head off, and spit it into the flask. With his brothers captured, Nicky prepares to save his father. After he re-covers Winkler in bees to make sure he goes to Hell, 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 Lucifer, Satan then shoves the flask containing Adrian and Cassius up Hitler's rump. One year later, Nicky and Valerie live in New York with their infant son named Zachariah who has

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ic powers. A postscript states that Valerie struck Nicky with a shovel which fixed his jaw disfigurement. Satan and Holly continue their long distance relationship where Holly's fitness instructor is mentioned to be

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. Zachariah was suspended from the nursery after turning another kid's bottle of milk into moose urine. Todd started his one man show in which only a demon from Hell attended. Mr. Beefy reunited with his rat girlfriend and they had kids. Stanley the Gatekeeper and Gary the Monster also had kids of their own. John and Peter die in a plane crash and end 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 that Nicky falls for. *

, the ruler of Hell who is the father of Nicky, Adrian, and Cassius. * Rhys Ifans as Adrian, the devious firstborn of Satan. * Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. as Cassius, the brutish second son of Satan. *

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, Nicky, Adrian, and Cassius's grandfather and Satan's father who created Hell. * Robert Smigel as the voice of Mr. Beefy, a possessed bulldog and an old friend of Satan that Nicky befriends. *

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as Holly, an angel who is Nicky's mother. *

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as Todd, an actor that Nicky befriends. * Jonathan Loughran as John, a Satanist metalhead that befriends Nicky. *

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as Peter, a Satanist metalhead and friend of John that befriends Nicky. *

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

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as Stanley "Tit-Head", the Gatekeeper of Hell who Satan manifested breasts on top of his head after he mentioned that he couldn't stop Adrian and Cassius from leaving Hell. *

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as Whitey Duvall, the referee. Character credited as "Referee". *

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as the unnamed Chief of Police whom Adrian possesses. *

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as Mrs. Veronique Dunleavy, a woman who is spied upon by the Peeper * Isaiah Griffin as Scotty Dunleavy, the son of Mrs. Dunleavy. * Leah Lail as Christa * Jackie Titone as Jenna * Christopher Carroll as

, the head of the

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who is condemned in Hell where Satan shoves a pineapple up his rump with him wearing a dress. * Joseph S. Griffo as Evil Little Person * Michael Deak as Gary the Monster ** Jess Harnell as the vocal effects of Gary the Monster ;Cameos *

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as a cardinal *

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as a mother at the Globetrotters Game * John Farley as Human Dartboard *

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as Andrew/Nipples *

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as The Peeper, a pervert who gets caught spying on Mrs. Dunleavy from a tree, is killed by Mrs. Dunleavy and Scotty when they throw a rock at him, and is condemned to Hell where he is chased by giant horny birds. *

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as Himself, he tries to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for his team's 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 * Radio Man as Himself (Deleted scene) *

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as a Townie who witnesses Nicky's fight with Adrian. Schneider reprises his role from ''

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''. *

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as an Alumni Hall Announcer *

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as a blind deacon that Nicky hits with water from a fire hydrant after he insulted Valerie. *

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as Himself *

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as a Street Vendor that briefly steals Nicky's flask. *

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as Chubbs Peterson. Weathers reprises his role from ''

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''. *

as Himself, he gets covered by bees twice with the first one caused by Adrian and the second one caused by Nicky. *

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as Mayor Randolph, the

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that Cassius possesses. * Fred Wolf as a Harlem Globetrotters fan.

Reception

Box office

It opened at #2 at the North American box office making $16 million USD 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 $58.3 million.

Critical response

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, the film has an approval rating of 21% 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 scale of A to F. Comedian and former ''

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'' host

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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

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, 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 Popeye's Chicken (lost to

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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 DVD and VHS on April 24, 2001. 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.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album, ''Little Nicky (Music from the Motion Picture)'', was released October 31, 2000, through

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; " Runnin' with the Devil" by

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" by Scorpions; and " Highway to Hell" by

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game was released based on the film shortly after its release.

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