This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

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.