| Grown Ups | |
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| Directed by | Dennis Dugan |
| Produced by | Jack Giarraputo Adam Sandler |
| Written by | Adam Sandler Fred Wolf |
| Starring | Adam Sandler Kevin James Chris Rock David Spade Rob Schneider |
| Music by | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography | Theo van de Sande |
| Editing by | Tom Costain |
| Studio | Happy Madison Productions Relativity Media |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 25, 2010 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million–$80 million[1] |
| Box office | $271,430,189[2] |
Grown Ups is a 2010 American buddy-comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. Sandler and Fred Wolf wrote the script. The film was produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.[3] Sandler, Rock, Schneider, and Spade all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1990–1991 season; supporting cast including Colin Quinn, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows and Norm MacDonald have also been SNL cast members.
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In 1978, five childhood friends won their junior high basketball championship. During the celebration at a rented lake house, their coach "Buzzer" (Blake Clark) encourages them to live their lives in a similar way to how they played the game. Thirty years later, the five friends have since separated. Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) is a high-powered Hollywood talent agent who is married to Roxanne (Salma Hayek), a fashion designer, and has three kids. His sons Greg and Keithie have become very spoiled, much to his annoyance. Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James) claims he is now a co-owner of a lawn furniture company, is married to Sally (Maria Bello) and has two kids, Donna and Bean. Sally still breastfeeds the 4 year old Bean. Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock) is a stay-at-home father who is married to Deanne (Maya Rudolph), the primary breadwinner of the family, and has two kids. Deanne is pregnant with another child and Deanne's mother also lives with the family. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) has been divorced three times and has daughters Jasmine, Amber, and Bridget from those marriages. His current wife Gloria (Joyce Van Patten) is 30 years older than him. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) is a lazy womanizer. All of them regularly harass each other in comedic fashion throughout the movie; Lenny for being rich (although he tries to downplay it), Eric for being overweight, Kurt for being skinny and not being more useful, Rob for his way of saying "Hey!" (and other rhyming words) and for having a much older wife, and Marcus for being a slacker.
When the five friends find out that Buzzer has died, they all return to New England with their families to attend his private funeral. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th of July weekend for his friends to stay at, but Lenny can't stay for the whole weekend because Roxanne has a fashion show in Milan. While at the lake house, Lenny is annoyed that their kids would rather play video games than spend time outdoors, so he and the others force their kids to play outside during their stay. Eric has a small incident on a rope swing and injures a bird. At a local restaurant, Lenny runs into his old nemesis Dickie Bailey (Colin Quinn), who is still upset at Lenny because he allegedly had his foot out of bounds when he made the long-ago game winning shot. Dickie challenges him and his friends to a rematch, but Lenny declines, noting that Dickie is decidedly out of shape.
The next day, the five guys spread Buzzer's ashes. Rob becomes depressed during this event, lamenting his failed marriages. Rob then says his daughters from the past marriages are coming. After having to deal with his first daughter, Rob go and hangs out with his friends, who were fishing. After making some jokes on Rob, the others elect to cheer him up with a game of arrow . Rob remains in the circle the longest, making him the winner. His thrill of victory is cut short as the falling arrow impales his foot. That evening, Lenny discovers the kids talking on cup phones. Happy that they are enjoying the same kind of fun he had as a child, he installs an extensive cup-phone network in the house.
Roxanne ultimately figures out that it is more important to stay at the lake house than go to Milan. They then go to a water park. There, Bean learns to drink milk out of a carton, while Marcus flirts constantly with Jasmine and Amber, having bought them skimpy bikinis. Rob assaults a ride attendant who insults Bridget for being less attractive than her sisters. Eric ignores Donna's warning about a chemical in the kiddie pool that turns urine blue, and chaos results when he makes a sissy. Later, Lenny and the group go to the zip line and meet Dickie again, this time with his own group of friends, including Wiley (Steve Buscemi), who ends up in the hospital after an accident there.
On their final day at the Lake house, Lenny and his buddies are again challenged to a basketball rematch by Dickie. At the game-deciding shot, Lenny purposely misses in order to allow Dickie to finally win. Before ending the movie, Marcus plays another game of arrow roulette, this time with an entire crowd of people, and everyone takes off, the movie ends with the already-injured Wiley gets his foot impaled by the arrow.
Filming commenced in Southborough, Massachusetts on May 18, 2009, but most of the filming was done in Essex, Massachusetts, Water Wizz at Wareham, Massachusetts, as well as some scenes shot in Marblehead, Massachusetts on the exclusive Marblehead Neck.[4] The restaurant scene takes place in Woodman's of Essex. The "lake house" and basketball scene at the end were filmed at Chebacco Lake in Essex, MA. The film was scheduled to be released on July 1, 2010, but the production company moved it to June 25, 2010.
The score to Grown Ups was composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams, who recorded his score with a 55-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.[5]
The film was a box office success grossing $162,001,186 in the United States and $109,429,003 in other countries, with a worldwide gross of $271,430,189.[2] The film won at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards for the Best Line From A Movie category, which it won for the line "I want to get chocolate wasted!", delivered by Becky, played by Alexys Nicole Sanchez.
The film has been universally panned by critics. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 10% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 151 reviews, with an average score of 3.3/10, and its consensus states that "Grown Ups' cast of comedy vets is amiable, but they're let up by poor direction and the scattershot, lowbrow humor of a stunted script."[6] Metacritic awarded the film an average score of 30 out of 100 based on 32 reviews.[7]
Sony Pictures and Happy Madison Productions are currently in negotiations for a sequel, with Fred Wolf reportedly signed on to write the script. None of the original cast have signed on, though Sandler is "interested" in reprising his role.[8]
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