Plot
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
Release Year: 1996
Rating: 6.9/10 (74,275 voted)
Critic's Score: 31/100
Director:
Dennis Dugan
Stars: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen
Storyline A Hockey player wannabe finds out that he has the most powerful golf drive in history. He joins the P.G.A. tour to make some money to save grandma's house. The downside is that his hocky player mentality doesn't really go on the P.G.A. tour. Especially with the favorite to win the championship.
Writers: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Cast: Adam Sandler
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Happy Gilmore
Christopher McDonald
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Shooter McGavin
Julie Bowen
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Virginia Venit
Frances Bay
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Grandma
Allen Covert
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Otto
Robert Smigel
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IRS Agent
Bob Barker
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Himself
Richard Kiel
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Mr. Larson
Dennis Dugan
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Doug Thompson
Joe Flaherty
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Jeering Fan
Lee Trevino
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Himself
Kevin Nealon
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Potter
Verne Lundquist
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Announcer
Jared Van Snellenberg
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Happy's Waterbury Caddy
Ken Camroux
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Coach
Taglines:
He doesn't play golf... he destroys it.
Release Date: 16 February 1996
Filming Locations: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Box Office Details
Budget: $10,000,000
(estimated)
Gross: $38,624,000
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Before his first tournament, Happy asks Chubbs why he didn't play a real sport, "like football, or somethin'." Carl Weathers, who played Chubbs, was a professional football player before becoming an actor.
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes:
During the opening scene for the tour championship. The Volkswagen bug can be seen against the tower. That scene is not until the end of the movie.
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]
User Review
To Be Remembered Forever: 'Happy' And Bob Barker Trading Blows
Rating: 9/10
A "pro" golfer duking it out with veteran game-show host Bob Barker
right in the middle of a tournament. That scene alone makes this one of
the more memorable comedies of the last 30 years. Almost everyone I
know has either seen or heard of that scene and everyone laughs at it.
It IS ludicrous and that's what makes it so funny. In fact, most of the
movie is totally preposterous, totally unbelievable and totally wacky,
which is Adam Sandler's trademark in these comedies. He's low key but
violent, as he was in Mr. Deeds, Punch-Drunk Love and a few other
films.
Here, Sander is even more vocal and violent than normal and definitely
more crude, which is saying something since this actor usually doesn't
play guys with a lot of class. "Happy" is a hot-tempered hockey player
who can hit a golf ball 400 yards so he tries his hand on the PGA tour
to help raise money for his grandmother. I just shake my head even
writing that last sentence, it sounds so stupid....but this is a stupid
movie with an incredibly stupid story but is hilarious, for the most
part.
Anyone who is a golfer would appreciate this movie more than others,
because Sandler says and does things we'd all like to do on the links
at times but, thankfully, don't. In short: this is a crude but very
funny movie.
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