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Grown Ups co-stars weren’t impressed when Adam Sandler spent £500,000 on gift for them after movie ended

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Published 15:12 15 Jan 2024 GMT

Grown Ups co-stars weren’t impressed when Adam Sandler spent £500,000 on gift for them after movie ended

It's been over a decade since the films came out

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Night of Too Many Stars/Columbia Pictures

Topics: Adam Sandler, Celebrity, TV and Film, Chris Rock

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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There are some celebrities who you just either love or hate. And often with that, you’re either a big fan of their films or cannot even sit through five minutes.

One of those guys is easily Adam Sandler. But even if you do think his string of films are unbearably dry, it’s a fact that his work has grossed enormous sums – even if they seem like flops.

Take Grown Ups for example, which reportedly brought in over $270 million (£232 million) at the box office, despite critics absolutely slating it.

Despite it’s rather sh*t rating of 10 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the 2010 comedy did well for Sandler and his cast of celebrity pals.

Alongside the divisive actor, the movie starred Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider.

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Sure, the guys might be mega famous but bad reviews can’t exactly be nice - so helping soften the blow, Sandler spent over £500,000 on gifts for the men.

The 57-year-old bought his co-stars a Maserati each, estimated to be worth about $200,000 (or about £130,000 at the time). But they weren’t necessarily all impressed with the cars.

Grown Ups premiered in 2010.
Jim Spellman / Wire Images/ Getty images

Sandler gave the guys no head up about the presents and in an interview on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno back in 2010, Spade admitted that he'd been too 'embarrassed' to actually drive it.

Meanwhile, Rock said that he feared the gift came with a string attached.

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Speaking to Howard Stern, he joked: "I went outside the other day and I had a new Maserati in the driveway. Now I think that I'm Adam Sandler's b****."

Spade recalled the gifting as he explained: “He gave us all a Maserati.

"Chris Rock called me and he goes, 'Will you look in your driveway?', and I go, 'No,' and he goes, 'Got out front and call me.'

Sandler gifted each of the guys a car.
Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Night of Too Many Stars

"So I go out front and they're putting a car in my driveway, and I go, 'What's happening?', and they go, 'Adam Sandler.'

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"I go, 'Oh, is this his car, I'm supposed to watch it?'"

He continued: "I call Rock and I go, 'I'm keeping Adam's car here for some reason,' and he goes, 'No that's for you, we all got one'."

Despite the flop reviews for Grown Ups, money talks and Grown Ups 2 followed in 2013 - failing to even reach the incredibly low bar set by the first film with a score of just eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

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