Grandma's Boy
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| Grandma's Boy | |
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 Promotional poster for Grandma's Boy |
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| Directed by | Nicholaus Goossen |
| Produced by | Allen Covert Adam Sandler |
| Written by | Barry Wernick Allen Covert Nick Swardson |
| Starring | Allen Covert Nick Swardson Doris Roberts Linda Cardellini Shirley Jones Shirley Knight |
| Music by | Michael Dilbeck |
| Cinematography | Mark Irwin |
| Editing by | Tom Costain |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | January 6, 2006 |
| Running time | 96 minutes (Rated) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $6,090,172 |
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Grandma's Boy is an American comedy film produced by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison in 2006. The film stars Allen Covert, a co-writer and co-producer, and Linda Cardellini.
Co-stars include Nick Swardson, Tyler Wallace, Shawn Dockham, Shirley Jones, Joel Moore, and Shirley Knight, in addition to Sandler-film regulars Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran, and Kevin Nealon. Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond) stars as "Grandma Lilly." Rob Schneider, David Spade, and professional wrestler Kevin Nash have cameo appearances.
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[edit] Plot
Alex is a 35-year old video game tester for a small company called Brainasium. He and his roommate are evicted after his roommate spent the rent money on "massage therapists" for 6 months. Alex first tries staying at a coworker/friend's house. His friend, Jeff, still lives with his parents but calls them "roommates." During the night, Alex ejaculates on Jeff's mother who bursts into the bathroom while he is masturbating. Refusing to stay the rest of the night, Alex leaves and sleeps the rest of the night at his desk at work.
In the morning he is woken up by Samantha who is a project manager brought in from New York City to put their current game (Eternal Death Slayer 3) back on schedule. In what is seemingly a routine, Alex ("the champ") is challenged by a young employee to a video game. During the challenge Samantha introduced to and is escorted by J.P. in a tour of the company facility.
J.P. is the creator and designer of Eternal Death Slayer 1, 2 & 3, and is generally considered a video game genius since he created EDS1 at the age of 13. He is extremely nerdy and dresses in all black clothing. Samantha & J.P. enter the break room during Alex's challenge and watch. When done, Alex's asks J.P. "How much do the clothes cost in The Matrix?". At the end of the day Alex stays at his grandma's house.
His grandma, Lilly, has two roommates: Grace and Bea. Grace is blunt & presumptuous (she thinks Alex is gay) and Bea is a spacey woman who carries her medications in a tackle box & arranges her medication in designs. In the morning Alex is woken up by a grandfather clock well before his normal wake up time. He is offered breakfast but then roped into performing chores before work. After work he introduces his game Demonik to Grandma Lilly. She refuses to give up the game controller, so Alex goes over to his marijuana dealer Dante's, house where he gets weed and a cable box that gets his grandma free cable television. Lilly, Grace, and Bea get addicted to the Food Network and Antiques Roadshow preventing him from doing the extra game testing he needs to do so EDS3 can be back on schedule. To finally have time with the television to finish his work, Alex buys them tickets to Antiques Roadshow.
The boss of Brainasium, Mr. Cheezle, tells Samantha to take the team out to eat in celebration of getting EDS3 back on schedule. The restaurant turns out to be for vegans, and after making fun of the waiter, they go out for fast food instead. After dinner, they head to Grandma Lilly's to find Lilly, Grace, and Bea drank Alex's marijuana thinking it was tea. Disappointed that they have none to smoke, they invite Dante over who invites dozens of other people to join the party. The next day, at work, J.P. confronts Jeff who prank called his cell phone during the party. J.P becomes upset after being mocked by Jeff and the others, and goes to Alex for advice. There, J.P. discovers Demonik and offers Alex to review it for him.
The next day Alex, Jeff, Samantha, and others are shown a demonstration of J.P.'s newest game. It turns out that J.P. plagiarized Demonik and showed it to Mr. Cheezle as his own game. Having given J.P. the only copy, Alex has no way to prove the game is his. Grandma Lilly, now an avid player of Demonik, is brought in to face off J.P. head-to-head in Demonik. Defeated, J.P.'s mother is called to pick him up. It is unknown whether he is actually fired. Demonik is eventually finished, manufactured, and released to the public.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role | Notes |
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| Allen Covert | Alex | Protagonist |
| Linda Cardellini | Samantha | Project Manager/Consultant |
| Peter Dante | Dante | Weed Dealer |
| Doris Roberts | Grandma Lilly | Alex's Grandma |
| Joel Moore (as Joel David Moore) | J.P. | Video Game Genius/Antagonist |
| Shirley Jones | Grace | Grandma Lilly's Friend |
| Shirley Knight | Bea | Grandma Lilly's Friend |
| Kevin Nealon | Mr. Cheezle | Head of Brainasium |
| Nick Swardson | Jeff | Alex's Coworker/Friend |
| Jonah Hill | Barry | Alex's Coworker/Friend |
| Kelvin Yu | Kane | Alex's Coworker/Friend |
| Chuck Church | Dan | Coworker (Challenges Alex) |
| Scott Halberstadt | Bobby | Coworker (Challenges Jeff) |
| Heidi Hawking | Milk Maid | Barry's Pick-up at the Party |
| David Spade | Shiloh | Waiter at Vegan Restaurant |
[edit] Production
Filming took place in Los Angeles, California at L.A. Center Studios, and locations in the vicinity. The film opened in wide release to 2,000+ theaters, with an "R" rating, on January 6, 2006. The Region 1 DVD was released May 9, 2006 in widescreen format, with theatrical and unrated versions, subtitled in English and Spanish, with audio tracks in English, Spanish, and French. It includes commentary tracks by the director and stars, deleted scenes, montages of outtakes and alternative lines, and several "featurettes."
[edit] Reception
Critical opinion of the movie upon its release was mixed. At Rotten Tomatoes, "Grandma's Boy" received a 16% critic rating based on 56 reviews, and a 60% viewer rating based on 195 votes. Metacritic has aggregated a 33% (15 reviews) critic rating. Despite poor critical reception the movie has developed a cult following based on the stoner/slacker tone of the movie. In fact, Grandma's Boy won several awards, including Best Stoner Movie, Best Actor in a Movie (Allen Covert), and Best Pot Scene in a movie, from High Times Magazine's 2006 Stony Awards.
[edit] Soundtrack
The soundtrack includes tracks of dialogue from the movie between the musical tracks.
| Track # | Title | Author | Time |
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| 2 | "Another Day" | The Twenty Twos | 2:40 |
| 4 | "Helicopter" | Bloc Party | 3:39 |
| 5 | "Meantime" | The Futureheads | 2:49 |
| 7 | "Spinnin'" | Zion I | 3:25 |
| 9 | "Little Girl" | The Daylights | 3:16 |
| 10 | "Never Win" | Fischerspooner | 3:59 |
| 12 | "Sittin' Sidewayz" | Paul Wall/Big Pokey | 3:48 |
| 14 | "Alive and Amplified" | The Mooney Suzuki | 3:05 |
| 15 | "Can't Kick the Habit" | Spin Doctors | 8:12 |
| 17 | "Night On Fire" | VHS or Beta | 4:01 |
| 18 | "Anyone" | Moving Units | 3:57 |
| 20 | "Windowlicker" | Aphex Twin | 6:04 |
| 21 | "STD Dance" | Ima Robot | 4:35 |
| 23 | "Grandma's Boyee" | Kool Keith/Kutmasta Kurt | 4:09 |
[edit] Other music
Music from the film not found on the soundtrack includes:
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