Happy Gilmore Review

Happy Gilmore

Release Date: 8th August 1996 – Australia

Production Companies

Brillstein-Grey Entertainment

Robert Simonds Productions

Universal Pictures (presents)

Genre: Comedy

Rating: M

Runtime: 92 minutes

 
Budget: $10,000,000

Box Office Gross: $41,205,099 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Rejected many times was an unsuccessful hockey player named Happy Gilmore all his life. Adding insult to injury, his girlfriend leaves him, and his grandmother is evicted from her home when she didn't pay her taxes. He winds up playing golf and enters the pro golf tournament to earn some money to get his grandmother's house back, but he has to compete with Shooter

McGavin, a rival golf

player who is the

favourite of the tour.

Cast

Adam Sandler – Happy Gilmore

Christopher McDonald – Shooter McGavin

Julie Bowen – Virginia Venit

Frances Bay – Grandma Gilmore

Carl Weathers – Chubbs Peterson

Allen Covert – Otto

Robert Smigel – IRS Agent

Kevin Nealon – Gary Potter

Richard Kiel – Mr. Larson

Bob Barker – Himself
Dennis Dugan – Doug Thompson
Joe Flaherty – Jeering Fan

Lee Trevino – Himself (Cameo)

Verne Lundquist – Announcer
Jared Van Snellenberg – Happy's Waterbury Caddy
Ken Camroux-Taylor – Coach
Rich Elwood – Assistant Coach

Nancy Hillis – Terry

Helena Yea – Chinese Lady

Will Sasso – Mover
Dee Jay Jackson – Mover

Ellie Harvie – Registrar

Ian Boothby – Guy on Green

Andrew Johnston – Crowd Guy – Waterbury

Kim Restell – Crowd Guy – Waterbury

Fred Perron – Waterbury Heckler

Helen Honeywell – Crazy Old Lady

Paul Raskin – Starter #1 - Waterbury

William Samples – Starter #2 - AT&T

John Shaw – Daniel Lafferty

Ted Deekan – Auctioneer

John Destry – Zamboni Driver

James Crescenzo – Shooter's AT&T Caddy

Brett Armstrong – Shooter's Tournament Caddy

Peter Kelamis – Potter's Caddy

Stephen Tibbetts – Pro Golfer

Ed Lieberman – Pro Golfer

Donnie MacMillan – Young Happy
Louis O'Donoghue – Happy's Dad
Lisanne Collett – Happy's Mom

Stephen Dimopoulos – Italian Guy

Douglas Newell – Starter #4 – Pro-Am

Frank L. Frazier – Blue Collar Fan

David Kaye – Reporter

Zachary Webb – Batting Kid

Simon Webb – Doctor

Mark Lye – Himself (Cameo)

Betty Linde – Elderly Woman

Dave Cameron – Reporter #2

Louis Kioman – Reporter #3

Brent Chapman – Official

Jessica Gunn – Signed Chest Woman

Phillip Beer – Cowboy Joe

Fat Jack – Jack Beard

Michelle Holdsworth – Babe on Green

Charles L. Brame – Abe Lincoln

Jack Giarraputo – Sportscaster (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Ben Stiller – Hal (Uncredited)

Crew

Director – Dennis Dugan

Writers – Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler
Executive Producers – Bernie Brillstein,

Brad Grey and Sandy Wernick
Producer – Robert Simonds
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager –
Warren Carr
Co-Producer – Jack Giarraputo

Golf Consultant – Mark Lye
Alligator Handlers – Gina & Jim Brockett
Production Designer – Perry Andelin Blake
Co-Production Designer – William Heslup

Art Director – Richard Harrison
Set Decorator – Mark Lane
Costume Designer – Tish Monaghan

Director of Photography – Arthur Albert

Camera Operators – David Crone and

Joel Ransom

Location Manager – Greg Jackson
Stunt Coordinator/Stunts – Brent Woolsey

Animatronics – Tony Gardner

Special Effects – William H. Orr,

Clay Scheirer and Keith Wardlow

Visual Effects Supervisor: Available Light Ltd. –

John T. Van Vliet

Visual Effects Producer: Available Light Ltd. –

Katherine Kean

Film Editors – Jeff Gourson

and Steve R. Moore

Supervising Sound Editor – Bruce Nyznik

Re-Recording Mixers – Chris David,

Paul Massey and Tom Perry

Foley Artists – John Roesch,

Hilda Hodges and James Moriana

Music – Mark Mothersbaugh

Music Mixer & Producer – Bob Casale

Review

HAPPY GILMORE has a lot of hilarity coming into a hole-in-one, but this is a one-of-a-kind golf comedy film that Adam Sandler has made. This feature began when Sandler's film acting career progressed following the success of Billy Madison. It represents the ways Sandler achieved through his significant style of lowbrow comedy.

I loved everything in the movie, including the quotable lines, the hilarious and subtle performances of Adam Sandler, Carl Weathers, and Christopher McDonald, and Ben Stiller's funny uncredited cameo as the mean orderly. The film includes a scene when Happy fights with Bob Barker. Guess who won?

GILMORE is the best yet funniest of all Sandler features and one of my favourites. It is one of those films for viewers who find it pure comedy gold. Tomorrow, I will publish my review of the 1978 musical Grease, which stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Don't you forget it.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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