Happy Gilmore (1996)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Dennis Dugan

Writers (WGA):

Tim Herlihy (written by) &
Adam Sandler (written by)

Release Date:

16 February 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Sport

Tagline:

He doesn't play golf... he destroys it.

Plot:

A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.

Plot Keywords:

Hockey | Golf | Grandmother's House | Golf Course | Tournament

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Adam Sandler	...	Happy Gilmore
Christopher McDonald	...	Shooter McGavin
Julie Bowen	...	Virginia Venit
Frances Bay	...	Grandma
Carl Weathers	...	Chubbs
Allen Covert	...	Otto
Robert Smigel	...	IRS Agent
Bob Barker	...	Himself
Richard Kiel	...	Mr. Larson
Dennis Dugan	...	Doug Thompson
Joe Flaherty	...	Jeering Fan
Lee Trevino	...	Himself
Kevin Nealon	...	Potter
Verne Lundquist	...	Announcer
Jared Van Snellenberg	...	Happy's Waterbury Caddy

Also Known As:

Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and some comic sexuality.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Netherlands:MG6 (video premiere) | Iceland:L | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Sweden:11 | South Korea:12 | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) (Canadian Home Video rating) | USA:PG-13 (No. 34362) | Philippines:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 (video premiere) | Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | UK:12

Filming Locations:

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Company:

Brillstein-Grey Entertainment

Trivia:

Before Happy's first tournament at the Waterbury Open, a limo drives by him, to which he says "Whoa, must be Burt Reynolds or something". Adam Sandler would later star with Burt Reynolds in the remake of The Longest Yard (2005).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Happy is introduced to the members of the Gold Jacket Club, Shooter's glass repeatedly switches hands between shots.

Quotes:

[first lines]
[opening narration voice over]
Happy Gilmore: My name is Happy Gilmore. Ever since I was old enough to skate, I loved hockey. I wasn't really the greatest skater though. But that didn't stop my dad from teaching me the secret of smacking his greatest slap shot.
[Young Happy, hits a hard plastic ball into his father's forehead]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)

Soundtrack:

Green Onions

I say, We just lay by the bay and make hay! Okay?"

Okies....here we have the indisputable King of mediocrity but one thing you gotta say for Sandler - they don't come more unpretentious! He delivers what you expect and in HAPPY GILMORE he came up undeniably with his best film!

As the wannabe hockey great in dire need of an anger-management course, Sandler discovers by chance his prodigious golfing talents - but using a hockey stick! In a performance best decribed as R-rated Jerry Lewis, Sandler is a hoot as he takes on Bob Barker, the establishment and Shooter McGavin - golfing's hissable "Mr Smarm" (An Oscar-worthy turn from Christopher McDonald)

Carl Weathers turns in a blinder as Sandler's newly come-by coach with an unfortunate earlier run-in with a hungry croc! If you don't find anything in this film funny, you're a dead person! Like many devotees, we have watched this film countless times - it just improves with age!