15 Movies You Won’t Believe Are 10 Years Old
10. Reign Over Me
As an Adam Sandler fan, it's remarkably easy to wish the last ten years largely out of existence. The decade has seen the Netflix-supporting comedian make just two good films - Funny People and Blended (and the latter is vastly inferior to the former). Only one of them was profitable, and it wasn't the one that show-cased Sandler's actual acting ability, that's for damn sure.
If you were once an Sandler fan when he was making the likes of Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy, there's a good chance you hang on to those rare successes now to the avoidance of the rest of the garbage he puts out. That's precisely why Reign Over Me (with yet another not profitable serious Sandler performance) feels like it only just happened.
It offers a flash of what Sandler could be when he's not making Grown-Ups movies or peddling creative filth to Netflix. And the revelation that it happened so long ago is devastating to those who wish he'd get back on track.