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      • The movie hits a perfect sweet spot of silly and heartful, and it is endlessly quotable. From Chubbs to Ben Stiller’s Hal to Happy himself, this story of a hockey player turned golfer has become a legitimate comedy classic.
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  2. Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, produced by Robert Simonds, and starring Adam Sandler in the title role, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, and Carl Weathers. The film follows the namesake failed ice hockey player who seeks to gather enough money to stop the foreclosure of his grandmother's house.

  3. Dec 28, 2021 · Not only does Happy’s Asgardian swing remain chiseled into sports-film lore, but the movie itself became a staple of comedy and comfort for a generation. Most Sandler movies of the 1990s...

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  4. Feb 16, 2021 · One of the earliest entries in the Sandler catalog is the golf comedy Happy Gilmore, about a wannabe hockey player who finds unexpected success as a professional golfer. And even though it’s...

  5. Dec 6, 2023 · The 1996 comedy movie Happy Gilmore combines sports, slapstick humor, and heartwarming moments. The film revolves around Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler), a failed hockey player who turns to golf...

  6. Happy Gilmore is a classic fish-out-of-water story, with the stuffy world of pro golf busted wide open by a brash rule-breaker, who succeeds by bending the sport’s tightly-held traditions. Adam Sandler perfects the petulant child act he honed throughout Saturday Night Live, and had taken to the big screen in the previous year’s Billy Madison .

  7. Sep 6, 2024 · Universal. It’s all very much classic 90s Adam Sandler comedy. It’s over-the-top, with plenty of slapstick humour and absurd situations, like Gilmore’s surreal but amazing brawl with Bob Barker.

  8. Dec 12, 2023 · Happy Gilmore is a comedy about an unsuccessful ice hockey player with a bad temper, who discovers his innate talent for golf. Sandler plays the title character, Happy Gilmore, and his inspiration for the film was his childhood friend, Kyle McDonough.