Happy Gilmore
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother’s house.
- Director:Dennis Dugan
- Genre:Comedy / Romance / Sport
- Runtime:88 minutes
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson: Trevor Garfield
John Heard : Dave Childress
Kelly Rowan : Ellen Henry
Clifton Collins Jr. : Cesar Sanchez (as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez)
Tony Plana : Principal Garcia
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Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) is an aspiring ice-hockey player who masters a powerful and dangerous slapshot that his late father taught him as a child. However, his aggression and poor skating ability render him unable to join any hockey team. His grandmother, (Frances Bay), with whom he has lived almost all his life, has not paid her taxes for many years. As such, she owes $270,000 to the IRS and the house that Happy’s grandfather “built with his bare hands” is about to be seized. Grandma Gilmore is forced to temporarily move into a retirement home run as a sweatshop by Hal, the retirement home’s unpleasant and cruel manager (Ben Stiller in an uncredited role). While repossessing Grandma’s furniture, a pair of movers challenge Happy to hit golf balls, and his unorthodox hockey slapshot hits 400 yards three times, winning $40 as a result. This gives Happy the idea to go to the driving range to make money with bets on his swing. When ex-golf player and current Club Pro Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers) (who was forced to retire when his hand was bitten off by an alligator) sees Happy’s shot, he convinces Happy into entering a local tournament by telling him he can make a lot of money. Happy wins the tournament and earns a spot on the PGA Tour. However, against Chubbs’ advice, Happy joins the tour immediately after learning he can make enough money to buy back Grandma’s house.
On the Tour, Happy makes an instant enemy of star pro Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), who sees Happy as a detriment to golf and tries to thwart any attempt to steal his thunder. In addition, Happy discovers that although he has a powerful drive, his putting is terrible, and his violent outbursts and lack of golf etiquette cause him problems, which gives Shooter an opening to ask Doug Thompson (Dugan), the head of the tour, to expel Happy. Happy’s antics are garnering the tour’s highest television ratings and bringing more fans into tournaments, and Shooter’s request is denied. To help Happy cool down and start acting more professionally tour PR head Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen) is assigned to him by the tour. In addition to a relationship forming between the two, Happy begins to develop a cooler head while continuing to improve in tournaments much to the chagrin of Shooter, who decides to take matters into his own hands and hire Donald, a fan of Shooter’s (Joe Flaherty) to heckle Happy at the next tournament, a celebrity pro-am. Read more
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