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Writer-director James L. Brooks took a chance and cast Adam Sandler as the lead in his story about a Mexican maid (Paz Vega) who works in Los Angeles for a well-to-do married couple (Sandler and Tea Leoni). Sandler’s less mature fans didn’t know what to make of this 2004 comedy-drama, but it’s one of Sandler’s career high marks. And Brooks also worked happily with supporting actress Cloris Leachman, whom Brooks first cast, decades ago, as Phyllis on CBS’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show.