The Waterboy is a 1998 American sports film directed by Frank Coraci, (who played Robert 'Roberto' Boucher, Sr.), and starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark, Peter Dante and Jonathan Loughran. This was Jerry Reed’s final film appearance, until his death on September 1, 2008, had a complications from emphysema, he was 71 years old.

Lynn Swann, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Paul Wight and Rob Schneider have cameo appearances.

The movie was extremely profitable, earning over one hundred and eleven million dollars in the United States alone and made Adam Sandler a successful actor with The Waterboy becoming his second $100 million film in a year, along with 1998 film The Wedding Singer.

Adam Sandler's character, Bobby Boucher (pronounced "Boo-SHAY"), bears a strong resemblance to his "The Excited Southerner" comedic skits from his album "What the Hell Happened to Me?" The portrayal is one of a stereotypical Cajun from the bayous of South Louisiana, not the typical stereotype of a Southerner. He also shares similarities in speech and mannerism to Canteen Boy, a recurring character, also portrayed by Adam Sandler, on Saturday Night Live. Like Bobby, Canteen Boy preferred "purified water, right out of the old canteen", which he always carried with him.