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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Tim Herlihy (written by) &
Adam Sandler (written by)
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Release Date:
16 February 1996 (USA) more
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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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
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(51 articles)
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Slapstick humour that does not need you to think but with excellent timing. more (234 total)

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Also Known As:
Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore (USA) (video title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for language and some comic sexuality.
Runtime:
92 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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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
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Fun Stuff

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). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Happy and Shooter are at the club right after the first game of the tour, Shooter's martini has 2 olives in it. Afterwards when he gets it re-filled, there are 4 olives. In the next shot however, when Shooter tells Happy not to turn his back on him, he has only 1 olive in his martini glass. more
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]
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21 out of 30 people found the following comment useful.
Slapstick humour that does not need you to think but with excellent timing., 6 October 2004
Author: David Crowder (d-crowder) from Burntwood, England

Adam Sandler may not be the all-round actor who can deliver many different comic performances but he does have a certain comic style. Happy Gilmore is a failed Hockey player who cannot skate and has a lack of any self-discipline. His life seems to be a complete failure until he finds out he can hit a golf ball over 400 yards. At first you might feel little empathy for Happy as he obviously deserves all the bad luck he gets from the way he treats his friends. But the introduction of Shooter to the screen suddenly makes you root for the underdog. The plot is thrown together to get the most out of Sandler and his antics on screen. Some of the scenes are totally unbelievable particularly when a car is driven on to the golf course to run down Happy! But no matter how many times I see the film it can still make me laugh.

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