It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

James had costarred with Sandler in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Grown Ups and made a cameo appearance in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Happy Madison Productions

Sandler formed his film production company Happy Madison Productions in 1999 first producing fellow SNL alumnus Rob Schneider's film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. [citation needed] He returned to more dramatic[neutrality is disputed] fare with Mike Binder's Reign Over Me (2007) a drama about a man who loses his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a friendship with his old college roommate (played by Don Cheadle).

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9 1966) is an American actor comedian screenwriter and film producer. Deeds (2002) though he has ventured into more dramatic territory. In 1999 Sandler founded Happy Madison a film and television production company that has produced numerous films and developed the 2007 television series Rules of Engagement.