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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, and Ben Stiller have cameos.

The movie was nominated for two MTV Movie Awards, Best Comedic Performance for Sandler and Best Fight for Barker and Sandler, the latter of which it won. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Happy Gilmore the 31st greatest comedy film of all time.

Main cast

Adam Sandler – Happy Gilmore
Christopher McDonald – Shooter McGavin
Julie Bowen – Virginia Venit
Frances Bay – Grandma Gilmore
Carl Weathers – Chubbs Peterson

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Happy is a wannabe ice hockey player who masters a powerful slapshot with the help of his father. His slapshot isn't enough, though, as his aggression and poor skating ability on the ice gets him cut from every team he tries out for. His grandmother, whom he's lived with almost all his life, has not paid taxes on her home for several years and it is about to be reposessed. Happy searches for a way to help, but has few options. On a bet with the movers, who are chipping golf balls with Happy's grandfather's clubs, Happy takes a swing (so to speak) at trying to hit the ball farther than them. He drives the ball an estimated 400 yards in one shot (hitting unsuspecting neighbors down the street). The movers indicate how unbelievable this is and Happy discovers a new source of income to buy back his grandmother's home.

Happy goes to the local driving range to showcase his talent in exchange for cash, and he catches the eye of a washed-up-golf-pro-turned-teacher Chubbs Peterson (played by Carl Weathers), who lost his hand to an alligator. Chubbs thinks Happy can make big money as a golf tour player, and challenges him to enter an amateur tournament, the winner of which will be asked to play on the tour. Happy wins the tournament (his most impressive shot being a hole-in-one on a Par 4), catching the eye of tour PR head Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen) and tour veteran Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald).

Happy joins the pro tour and challenges his nemesis Shooter. Happy's passion for hockey spills over into his golf game and becomes an animate golfer the average viewer can identify with. Shooter finds his antics to be a disgrace to the game of golf and despises what Happy has done to his championship year. Both Happy and Shooter play hard for the gold jacket and the right to own Happy's Grandmother's home.

At the end of the tournament, crazed fans who need to see Happy's swing climb the TV tower, that collapses, right in between him and the hole. Having been familiarized with this rule before, Shooter reminds everyone that Happy must "play it as it lies". Happy then examines the TV tower, noticing that the parts of it are aligned exactly to where the golf ball needs to go. He swings, and it goes right along the many parts of the tower, going right into the hole. Happy, his caddy, his grandmother, and his girlfriend then return to Happy's grandmothers house to have a drink to Happy's success. (He obviously gets his grandmother's house back.)

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Movies - Happy Gilmore

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