1996 · comedy · sport
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Directed by Dennis Dugan1h 32m1996
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.
Our read: Happy Gilmore (1996) (1996) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · sport entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / sport, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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