Big Daddy 🎥 1999 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In New York City, Sonny Koufax is a 32-year-old slacker who graduated from law school but never took the bar exam. He works only one day a week as a toll booth attendant and lives comfortably off a $200,000 settlement from a minor accident. Lacking ambition and responsibility, Sonny spends his days lounging around, much to the frustration of his girlfriend Vanessa, who threatens to break up with him unless he grows up and changes his ways. Sonny’s roommate Kevin Gerrity, a successful lawyer, proposes to his girlfriend Corinne, a podiatrist, before leaving for China on a work assignment.

Corinne accepts but openly dislikes Sonny, largely because he constantly mocks her former job at Hooters, which she worked while paying her way through school. The next morning, Sonny wakes up to find a five-year-old boy named Julian McGrath abandoned at the apartment. A note explains that Julian’s mother, Jan, can no longer care for him due to illness and claims that Kevin is Julian’s biological father. Sonny contacts Kevin, who is shocked and confused by the news. Despite having no parenting experience, Sonny promises to take care of Julian until Kevin returns from China.

Hoping to win Vanessa back, Sonny introduces her to Julian, but she reveals that she is now dating Sid, an older and seemingly accomplished man whom she admires for his intelligence and clear five-year plan. Discouraged, Sonny struggles with the realities of caring for a child and soon becomes overwhelmed. Frustrated, Sonny impersonates Kevin and takes Julian to social worker Arthur Brooks, asking that the boy be returned to his mother. Arthur instead informs him that Julian’s mother has died of cancer and suggests placing Julian into foster care. Unable to allow that, Sonny reluctantly agrees to keep Julian until an adoptive family can be found.

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