Happy Gilmore Movie

Happy Gilmore
Rating:
Run Time: 92 min
MPAA Rating: PG13
Released: 1996
Directors: Dennis Dugan
Genre/Type: Comedy
Slapstick
Sports Comedy
Producers: Robert Simonds
Plot Synopsis by Derek Armstrong
Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the pros. When Happy discovers his grandmother (Frances Bay) will lose her home if she doesn't fork over 270,000 dollars to the IRS, he tries to figure out how he can possibly scrounge up the cash. An idea strikes during a game of one-upmanship with a couple furniture movers stripping his grandmother's home: On his first-ever swing, he drives a golf ball farther than the movers have ever seen. Before long, he has transplanted the foul-mouthed, aggressive persona of the hockey rink to the links, winning an amateur tourney that earns him a spot on the pro tour. Throttling everyone from a helpless caddy to game show host Bob Barker during the course of his 90-day quest to amass prize money, Happy also wins the sport a legion of new fans with his in-your-face style. Guiding him on his quest is a whimsical retired pro who lost his hand to an alligator (Carl Weathers) and an attractive public relations woman charmed by Happy's antics (Julie Bowen). Opposing him, however, is sneering hotshot Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), who will do anything to win his championship jacket and see Happy fail.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore Sep 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Christopher McDonald Shooter McGavin Feb 15, 1955
Julie Bowen Virginia
Frances Bay Grandma
Carl Weathers Chubbs Jan 14, 1948 in New Orleans, LA
Allen Covert Otto
Robert Smigel IRS Agent Feb 7, 1960 in Manhattan, NY
Peter Kelamis Potter's Caddy
Will Sasso Mover
Michelle Holdsworth Babe on Green
Verne Lundquist Announcer
Brett Armstrong Shooter's Tournament Caddy
William Samples 2nd Starter (AT&T)
Jared Van Snellenberg Happy's Waterbury Caddie
Rich Elwood Assistant Coach
Nancy McClure Terry
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Review by Derek Armstrong
Adam Sandler plays more of a grown-up in Happy Gilmore than he did in Billy Madison, but only in the sense that his tantrums are laced with rage and obscenity rather than infantile brattiness. These brusque qualities will further irritate his detractors while giving his fans another generous dollop of the comedian's hyperkinetic schtick. But Happy Gilmore has pleasures beyond the golf-ball-to-the-noggin variety, because it works as a fairly sturdy sports movie that finds the tricky balance of simultaneously mocking golf and glorifying it. That golf and hockey might involve essentially the same skill set, applied quite differently, enables the agreeable premise that a transplant from that aggressive venue might achieve some success with its more genteel cousin, while still keeping the rink's head-butting mentality. Sure, this is mostly just an excuse for vulgar, bone-crunching comedy, but it allows at least one classic episode of absurdism, in which Sandler gets into a trash-talking brawl with Bob Barker, the surprisingly agile 73-year-old game show host. That Happy putts with his hockey stick and launches his golf balls like whizzing cruise missiles (cleverly shot from their accelerating perspective) makes for effective crossover, blending the subtle precision of golf with the electrifying force of hockey, and winning converts to both sports. Still, Sandler himself wouldn't win many converts outside his own fan base until he aimed for a more tepid middle ground in The Wedding Singer.

Happy Gilmore on TV

Zip Code: 10010 · Provider: Verizon Fios Freehold NY Plus-Digital (Jersey City) Edit
Mon , 5:40 PM ET · Happy Gilmore  · Channel 344 · STZIB · Duration: 95 min.
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