Happy Gilmore

UPC: 025192015120

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Questionable for Children, Profanity, Slapstick Violence]

Summary: Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the pros. When Happy discovers his grandmother (Frances Bay) will lose her home if she doesn't fork over 270,000 dollars to the IRS, he tries to figure out how he can possibly scrounge up the cash. An idea strikes during a game of one-upmanship with a couple furniture movers stripping his grandmother's home: On his first-ever swing, he drives a golf ball farther than the movers have ever seen. Before long, he has transplanted the foul-mouthed, aggressive persona of the hockey rink to the links, winning an amateur tourney that earns him a spot on the pro tour. Throttling everyone from a helpless caddy to game show host Bob Barker during the course of his 90-day quest to amass prize money, Happy also wins the sport a legion of new fans with his in-your-face style. Guiding him on his quest is a whimsical retired pro who lost his hand to an alligator (Carl Weathers) and an attractive public relations woman charmed by Happy's antics (Julie Bowen). Opposing him, however, is sneering hotshot Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), who will do anything to win his championship jacket and see Happy fail. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: [None specified]

Happy Gilmore

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/24/1998

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 92 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Main Titles: Born To Play Hockey
1. Main Titles: Born To Play Hockey [:23]
Grandma's Tax Trouble
2. Grandma's Tax Trouble [7:06]
The Amazing Golf Ball Whacker Guy
3. The Amazing Golf Ball Whacker Guy [3:36]
The Waterbury Open
4. The Waterbury Open [6:18]
Welcome To The Tour
5. Welcome To The Tour [8:41]
The Psycho Golfer
6. The Psycho Golfer [4:39]
A Disgrace To The Game
7. A Disgrace To The Game [2:53]
"Endless Love" In The Dark
8. "Endless Love" In The Dark [1:20]
The Price Is Wrong
9. The Price Is Wrong [8:11]
Getting Down To Business
10. Getting Down To Business [6:50]
Good-Bye, Chubbs
11. Good-Bye, Chubbs [3:30]
Paired Off
12. Paired Off [4:39]
Big Trouble
13. Big Trouble [4:42]
The Comeback
14. The Comeback [4:28]
The Big Shot
15. The Big Shot [2:00]
Let's Go Home (End Titles)
16. Let's Go Home (End Titles) [5:07]

Derek Armstrong

Adam Sandler plays more of a grown-up in Happy Gilmore than he did in Billy Madison, but only in the sense that his tantrums are laced with rage and obscenity rather than infantile brattiness. These brusque qualities will further irritate his detractors while giving his fans another generous dollop of the comedian's hyperkinetic schtick. But Happy Gilmore has pleasures beyond the golf-ball-to-the-noggin variety, because it works as a fairly sturdy sports movie that finds the tricky balance of simultaneously mocking golf and glorifying it. That golf and hockey might involve essentially the same skill set, applied quite differently, enables the agreeable premise that a transplant from that aggressive venue might achieve some success with its more genteel cousin, while still keeping the rink's head-butting mentality. Sure, this is mostly just an excuse for vulgar, bone-crunching comedy, but it allows at least one classic episode of absurdism, in which Sandler gets into a trash-talking brawl with Bob Barker, the surprisingly agile 73-year-old game show host. That Happy putts with his hockey stick and launches his golf balls like whizzing cruise missiles (cleverly shot from their accelerating perspective) makes for effective crossover, blending the subtle precision of golf with the electrifying force of hockey, and winning converts to both sports. Still, Sandler himself wouldn't win many converts outside his own fan base until he aimed for a more tepid middle ground in The Wedding Singer. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Andrew Johnston  Actor 
Lee Trevino  Actor 
John Destrey  Actor 
Verne Lundquist  Actor 
Ian Boothby  Actor 
Louis O'Donoghue  Actor 
Phillip Beer  Actor 
Joe Flaherty  Actor 
Will Sasso  Actor 
Helena Yea  Actor 
Edward Lieberman  Actor 
Brent Chapman  Actor 
Bob Barker  Actor 
Betty Linde  Actor 
Dennis Dugan  Actor 
Helen Honeywell  Actor 
William Samples  Actor 
Paul Raskin  Actor 
Charles L. Brame  Actor 
Frank L. Frazier  Actor 
Ken Camroux  Actor 
Kevin Nealon  Actor 
Simon Webb  Actor 
Robert Smigel  Actor 
Rich Elwood  Actor 
Jim Crescenzo  Actor 
Mark Lye  Actor 
Stephen Dimopoulos  Actor 
Fred Perron  Actor 
Douglas Newell  Actor 
Peter Kelamis  Actor 
Nancy McClure  Actor 
Stephen Tibbetts  Actor 
Lou Kliman  Actor 
D.J. Jackson  Actor 
John Shaw  Actor 
Dave Cameron  Actor 
Michelle Holdsworth  Actor 
Ellie Harvie  Actor 
Donald MacMillan  Actor 
Jessica Gunn  Actor 
Richard Kiel  Actor 
David Kaye  Actor 
Brett Armstrong  Actor 
Kimberly Restell  Actor 
Lisanne Collett  Actor 
Fat Jack  Actor 
Ben Stiller  Actor 
Jared Van Snellenberg  Actor 
Ted Deeken  Actor 
Zachary Webb  Actor 
Adam Sandler  Screenwriter 
Dennis Dugan  Director 
Mark Mothersbaugh  Composer (Music Score) 
Robert Simonds  Producer 
Bernie Brillstein  Executive Producer 
Brad Grey  Executive Producer 
Tim Herlihy  Screenwriter 
Sandy Wernick  Executive Producer 
Adam Sandler  Actor 
Christopher McDonald  Actor 
Julie Bowen  Actor 
Frances Bay  Actor 
Carl Weathers  Actor 
Allen Covert  Actor 

Country: USA