Billy announces he will pass the hotel business to Carl Alphonse, one of his father's more polite businessmen, and attend college in order to become a teacher.
Eric recovers from the attack and attempts to shoot Veronica, but he is shot by Danny McGrath, a rifle-wielding madman whom Billy apologized to earlier in the film.Īt his graduation, Billy is delivering a speech. He brandishes a handgun, but Max tackles Eric before he can harm Billy. Eric is unable to withstand the pressure and breaks down. Billy stumbles on the opening question in the event, and Eric is given the chance to win the contest by answering a question about business ethics. Billy intervenes and challenges Eric to an academic decathlon to finally settle their feud.īoth men excel in different activities but Billy manages to take a single-point lead before the contest's final event, a Jeopardy!-style academic test. Financial analysis of Billy Madison (1995) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and. He then threatens to sue Brian if he does not pass the company onto him. Brian agrees to give Billy another chance but Eric cites that Billy failed the challenge by taking more than two weeks to complete a grade. Veronica motivates him to return to school, while his grade school classmates convince Max to retract his bribery accusations. Billy grows distraught and reverts to his carefree lifestyle. Eric blackmails Billy's principal, Max Anderson, into claiming that Billy bribed him for passing grades.īrian swiftly terminates his agreement with Billy and names Eric as his successor. Billy's progress alarms Eric, who becomes increasingly agitated as Billy completes each grade. Billy becomes popular among the third graders and misses them as he advances through school. He finds himself as one of Veronica's students in the third grade and earns her respect by standing up for Ernie, his friend and classmate. Nevertheless Billy successfully progresses through his first two grades. Shortly after enrolling into school, Billy becomes attracted to a teacher named Veronica Vaughn, who initially ignores him. The two finally compromise: Billy must complete all 12 grades in two-week intervals to prove he is competent enough to manage the company. When Billy begs his father to reconsider his decision, Brian reveals that he secretly bribed Billy's school teachers to give him passing grades. Brian loses confidence in his son and chooses the conniving Eric Gordon as his successor. One day, Billy ruins a dinner meeting between his father and his associates by acting obnoxiously. He spends his days drinking with friends and creating disturbances across his father's estate. He is played by Adam Sandler, who portrayed Happy Gilmore, Bobby Boucher, Little Nicky, Donny Berger, Zohan Dvir, Skeeter Bronson, and Sam Brenner, and voiced Davey Stone, Whitey Duvall, Dracula in Hotel Transylvania, and Q*bert in Pixels.īilly Madison is the 27-year-old heir to a Fortune 500 hotel company that his father, Brian, has created. Billy Madison is the titular main protagonist of the 1995 comedy film Billy Madison.
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