Grown Ups (2010)

After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Director:

Dennis Dugan

Writers:

Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf

Stars:

Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adam Sandler	...	Lenny Feder
Kevin James	...	Eric Lamonsoff
Chris Rock	...	Kurt McKenzie
David Spade	...	Marcus Higgins
Rob Schneider	...	Rob Hilliard
Salma Hayek	...	Roxanne Chase-Feder (as Salma Hayek Pinault)
Maria Bello	...	Sally Lamonsoff
Maya Rudolph	...	Deanne McKenzie
Joyce Van Patten	...	Gloria
Ebony Jo-Ann	...	Mama Ronzoni
Di Quon	...	Rita
Steve Buscemi	...	Wiley
Colin Quinn	...	Dickie Bailey
Tim Meadows	...	Malcolm
Madison Riley	...	Jasmine Hilliard

Storyline

In 1978, five 12-year-olds win a CYO basketball championship. Thirty years later, they gather with their families for their coach's funeral and a weekend at a house on a lake where they used to party. By now, each is a grownup with problems and challenges: Marcus is alone and drinks too much. Rob, with three daughters he rarely sees, is always deeply in love until he turns on his next ex-wife. Eric is overweight and out of work. Kurt is a househusband, henpecked by wife and mother-in-law. Lenny is a successful Hollywood agent married to a fashion designer with three kids and his two sons take their privilege for granted. Can the outdoors help these grownups rediscover connections or is this chaos in the making?

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Plot Keywords:

reunited friends | funeral | old friends reunited | ash scattering | pregnant wife | 

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Taglines:

Back Then They Were Too Young To Know Better. Now They Have No Excuse.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude material including suggestive references, language and some male rear nudity

Did You Know?

Trivia

Maya Rudolph really was pregnant with her second child during filming of this movie. Production began in June 2009, and Rudolph gave birth in November 2009.

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Goofs

During the conversation in which Lenny is holding the KFC bucket, the red side of the bucket is facing the camera, then after a cut-away, the white side is facing the camera, then after another cut-away, the bucket is gone.

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Quotes

Lenny Feder: Higgins, what are you doing?
Marcus Higgins: I don't wear pants at my house, I'm not wearing them in your house. Sorry.
Roxanne Chase-Feder: That was a man's ass?

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: Going Overboard (2012)

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Soundtracks

Ready for Love
Written by Mick Ralphs
Performed by Bad Company
Courtesy of Atco Records
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

User Reviews

OLD style comedy

Like films of the past such as Meatballs, Police Academy, Summer Rental and many others, Grown Ups delivers in SNL style comedy. with a star studded cast of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Steve Buscemi and Tim Meadows this original style comedy is fair.

A childhood basketball coach dies and the boys and their wives get together for a week to say goodbye and reminisce about the good old days and along the way teach their kids what being a kid back then meant. There is old style humor that if you grew up in the 80's you would remember.

It is a fun film for adults who recognize the meaning behind friendship and the childhood they had. I give this a solid 6 of 10.

Details

Official Sites:

Sony [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

25 June 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mad Families

Filming Locations:

Woodmans of Essex, 121 Main Street, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$80,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$40,506,562, 27 June 2010

Gross USA:

$162,001,186

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$271,457,301

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Happy Madison Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1