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  1. Grandma's Boy is a 2006 American stoner comedy film directed by Nicholaus Goossen, written by Barry Wernick, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson, and starring Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel David Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, and Nick Swardson. The film features a video game tester who is ...

  2. Grandma's Boy: Directed by Nicholaus Goossen. With Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones. A thirty-five-year-old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates.

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    • Comedy
    • Nicholaus Goossen
    • 2006-01-06
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    • Nicholaus Goossen
    • R
    • 2 min
    • Plot
    • Cast
    • Production
    • Release
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    Alex (Allen Covert) is a single, 35-year-old video game tester who lives with his friend Josh (Jonathan Loughran). When Josh wastes their rent money on Filipino hookers, their landlord Yuri (Rob Schneider) evicts them, and Alex has to find a new place to live. Alex tries to stay with his marijuana dealer Dante (Peter Dante), but cannot do so becaus...

    Allen Covertas Alex
    Nick Swardsonas Jeff
    Doris Robertsas Grandma Lilly

    Principal photography took place in Los Angeles at L.A. Center Studios, and locations in the vicinity. Game developer Terminal Reality was involved in the film's production, lending footage to promote their game Demonik. Although the game was cancelled before the film's release the footage remained in the final cut.

    Box office

    Grandma's Boyopened theatrically on January 6, 2006 in 2,015 venues and earned $3,009,341 in its opening weekend, ranking thirteenth in the domestic box office and second among that weekend's newcomers. The film ended its run seven weeks later on February 23, having grossed $6,090,172 domestically and $476,105 internationally for a worldwide total of $6,566,277. Though the film was not successful in theaters, it managed to become a success on the home video market, grossing $31,990,186 in DVD...

    Critical reception

    On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 16% based on reviews from 63 critics, with an average rating of 3.55/10. The site's consensus states: "A gross-out comedy that's more gross than comedic, Grandma's Boyis lazy and unrewarding." Metacritic reports a 33 out of 100 rating based on 15 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audience polling company CinemaScore reported that the average grade cinema audiences gave the film was a "B" on an A+ to F scale. Ronnie Schei...

    Accolades

    The film won several honors in High Times'2006 Stony Awards, including "Best Stoner Movie", "Best Actor in a Movie" (Allen Covert), and "Best Pot Scene in a Movie".

    The film was released on DVD on May 9, 2006 with theatrical (94 minutes) and unrated (95 minutes) versions.

  5. Grandma's Boy. List. NEW. When he and his roommate can't pay their rent, video game creator Alex (Allen Covert) finds himself homeless and moves in with Lilly (Doris Roberts), his wacky...

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  7. A thirty-five-year-old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates. When his roommate spends the rent money on hookers, Alex, a 35 year old video game tester has to find a new place to live.

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