Go figure.

Of the hundreds of films I have seen in my life, the countless moving performances I have witnessed on the big and small screen, it's Adam Sandler who brings a tear to my eye.

Adam Sandler. An SNL alumni. Happy fucking Gilmore.

For the first time, quite possibly in my life, I had tears in my eyes while watching a film, tears in my eyes purely due to the raw emotional power of a performance.

Adam Sandler's Charlie Fineman, a 9/11 widower in Reign Over Me. Gloriously powerful.