Happy Gilmore (film) Golf hotel
Happy Gilmore is a 1996 sports comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Carl Weathers, Julie Bowen, Allen Covert, Frances Bay and Christopher McDonald. Bob Barker, Robert Smigel, Kevin Nealon, Joe Flaherty, Lee Trevino, Richard Kiel, Mark Lye and Ben Stiller have cameos.
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 - I.R.S. Agent
Bob Barker - Himself
Richard Kiel - Mr. Larson
Dennis Dugan - Doug Thompson
Joe Flaherty - Donald
Lee Trevino - Himself
Kevin Nealon - Gary Potter
Verne
Lundquist - Himself
Jared Van Snellenberg - Happy's Waterbury Caddy
Plot
Happy (Adam Sandler) is a aspiring ice hockey player who masters a powerful slapshot that his father taught him as a child. However, his aggression and poor skating ability render it impossible for him to make any hockey team. His grandmother (Frances Bay), with whom he's lived almost all his life due to an unfortunate hockey related incident which killed his father, has not paid taxes on her home for several years. As such, she owes $275,000 to the IRS and the house that Happy's grandfather "built with his bare hands" is about to be repossessed. Due to a series of events that lead Happy to believe in his own ability to use his powerful slapshot in the game of golf, he joins the PGA Tournament in order to win enough money to buy back his grandmother's house from the government.
Aspiring PGA Tournament winner Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) sees Gilmore as a threat, and tries to thwart any attempt of his to steal his thunder. Although his golf game and his manners on the green aren't rounded- his long shot is excellent but he has trouble when it comes to putting-, Happy is guided by one-handed golf coach Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers) and the tournament PR head (Julie Bowen), who help him in finding his own way to win tournaments with a cooler head. Although his time on the course is jeopardised when he goaded into attacking another golfer, Happy manages to make some extra money by signing an endorsement deal with Subway, thus earning the $275,000 he needs to buy back his grandmother's house. Unfortunatley, at the auction, he is outbid by Shooter McGavin, who offers Happy the house under the terms that he in exchange quits the tournament. Happy is persuaded to continue with the tournament by the notion that his grandmother would rather see him succeed than have the house. Shooter agrees to give Happy the house if he beats him in the tour championship.
With some help from Chubbs and some lessons at the nearby Crazy Goly course, Happy improves his putting skills, but Chubbs subsequently dies in an accident. Determined to win the game for Chubbs, Happy goes head-to-head with Shooter, and- despite Shooter's attempts at sabotage, such as having a deranged fan drive onto the course and topple a TV tower in front of the last hole- wins the championship, becoming a pro golfer and in turn getting his grandmother's house back.
Goofs
In the scene where
Happy's putt stops and rolls back into the hole, the grooves in the ground used
to guide the ball are visible
In the scene where the television tower falls
onto the green on the 18th hole, a few people can already be seen sprawled on
the grass just before the tower falls.
When Virginia shoots the puck during
her date with Happy, the puck can be seen crossing through the crease in one shot
and then is seen further from the net in the next shot.
The VW Bug is shown
already crashed into the TV tower in a scene before the actual crash scene. Likewise,
the car explodes from the front during the crash, even though the VW Bug has the
engine in the rear.
At the hockey try-outs, the coaches are shown standing
behind the glass right after Happy shatters it with his slap shot.
At the
hockey try-outs,before Happy hits the shatters the glass with the puck the window
is already cracked when he goes to hit it.
When Happy throws the IRS agent
through his Grandmas door and down her front stairs, his kneepads are clearly
visible through his pants.
Trivia
The
golfer who continuously shakes his head in dismay during the film is Lee Trevino.
His only spoken line is: "Grizzly Adams did have a beard."
The final
scene, where Happy sees the ghosts of 3 people waving to him, is a parody on the
ending of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Verne Lundquist, who plays
the Golf Channel commentator in the film, is a hole announcer for the The Masters
Tournament, one of the major PGA tournaments, on CBS.
PGA Golfer Mark Lye
makes a cameo appearance during a cocktail party scene talking to Shooter McGavin
and Happy Gilmore about The Tour Championship.
Bob Barker credits his appearance
in this movie for revitalizing interest (especially among college students) in
his game show The Price Is Right (with perhaps, the oft repeated saying "The
price is wrong, bitch!"). He thinks a younger generation (college students
in particular) of viewers saw his performance in the movie, in which he is paired
up with Gilmore in a celebrity tournament and ends up winning a fist-fight against
the exuberant player after finishing in last place. His use of the phrases "I
think you've had enough" and "No? Now you've had enough-Bitch!"
are oft-repeated in his game show, in a differing context, of course. Barker accepted
the role after he found out he was going to win the fight.[citation needed]
During
a 2007 CBS prime-time special honoring Barker's 50th anniversary in television,
the clip of the fight from the movie was played. Afterward, Sandler made a surprise
appearance to thank Barker and read a poem in his honor.
NHL star Joe Sakic
makes a cameo appearance as a player at the hockey tryouts.
Richard Kiel has
trouble standing (due to his acromegaly and also due to his sense of balance being
affected by a head injury sustained in a car accident in 1992), so he had to use
a cane in most scenes. However, in two scenes, he could not use the cane because
of the "tough-guy" circumstances. In one scene, he simply leaned upon
an extra as he was being shot. In the other, the scene calls for him to run after
Christopher McDonald. However, since he could not, he was placed upon a cart and
wheeled. He was then shot only from the waist-up and moved his arms in a running-like
fashion.[citation needed]
The love interest of Happy Gilmore in this film
has the same initials of the love interest of Billy Madison (Billy Madison), Bobby
Boucher (The Waterboy) and Nicky (Little Nicky). Virginia Venit is the love interest
in this film whilst Veronica Vaughn is the love interest in Billy Madison, Vicki
Vallencourt is Bobby Boucher's love interest in The Waterboy and Valerie Veran
is Nicky's girlfriend in Little Nicky.
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