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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   47,577 votes
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Director:
Dennis Dugan
Writers (WGA):
Tim Herlihy (written by) &
Adam Sandler (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 February 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance | Sport more
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
NewsDesk:
(26 articles)
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User Comments:
I say, We just lay by the bay and make hay! Okay?" more

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for language and some comic sexuality.
Runtime:
92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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 more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Joe Sakic of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche appears uncredited during the hockey tryout scene. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Happy is hit by the Volkswagen on the green and the car proceeds to crash into a scaffold, thereafter exploding: The engine on the classic Beetles is located in the rear of the car, not the front, and would not explode as portrayed. 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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Kanye West: College Dropout - Video Anthology (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Jump Around more

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28 out of 36 people found the following comment useful:-
I say, We just lay by the bay and make hay! Okay?", 28 August 2002
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia

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!

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