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Directed by | Steven Brill |
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Cinematography | Theo van de Sande |
Edited by | Jeff Gourson |
Music by | Teddy Castellucci |
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Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $80-85 million[1] |
Box office | $58.3 million[2] |
Little Nicky is a 2000 American dark fantasy comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, and Brill, and starring Sandler in the title role, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., Rhys Ifans, and Rodney Dangerfield with supporting roles by Allen Covert, Kevin Nealon, Jon Lovitz, Michael McKean, and Quentin Tarantino.
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.
Little Nicky established the shared universe of Adam Sandler's films.[3] The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing $58.3 million against an $80–85 million budget.