Review: Original "HAPPY GILMORE" Can Still Lead to Laughter and Happiness

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 235 (of 2004) by Leroy Douresseaux

Happy Gilmore (1996)

Running time:  92 minutes (1 hour, 32 minutes)

Rating: MPAA – PG-13 for language and some comic sexuality

DIRECTOR:  Dennis Dugan

WRITERS:  Tim Herlihy & Adam Sandler

PRODUCER:  Robert Simonds

CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Arthur Albert (D.o.P.)

EDITORS:  Jeff Gourson and Steve R. Moore

COMPOSER: Mark Mothersbaugh

COMEDY

Starring:  Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers, Allen Covert, Robert Smigel, Bob Barker, Richard Kiel, Lee Trevino, Kevin Nealon, Verne Lundquist, Will Sasso, and Dee Jay Jackson with Ben Stiller

Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film from director Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler.  The film focuses on a ill-tempered hockey player who applies his talents to golf in the hopes of winning big tournament money that he can in turn use to save his grandmother's home from the IRS.

Like a lot of moviegoers, I’m a huge Adam Sandler fan.  Sandler is generally not a darling of the critics, but his movies are hilarious.  Even though most of his films display the most mediocre filmmaking and most juvenile script writing, Sandler is a genuinely fine comedic actor, and his comedic stage persona – stage, screen, wherever, comes across as both endearing and funny.  Happy Gilmore is from the early period of Sandler’s film career as the leading man or star, and while the movie’s concept is juvenile and the character immature, Happy Gilmore simply works quite well.

Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) tries out for a local semi-pro(?) hockey team, but fails to make the cut as he does every year.  On a dare, Happy discovers that he can hit a golf ball to a distance of over 400 yards (apparently a big deal).  Spurred on by Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers), a local club pro, Happy enters a local golf tournament and wins both the tournament and a spot on the pro golfer’s tour.

When his grandmother (Frances Bay) loses her home to the I.R.S. for owing a decade’s worth of back taxes, Happy accepts the bid to join the pro tour in hopes that his earnings can save her house.  Standing in the way is Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), a golf pro jealous of the attention Happy’s unique golf skills and his volatile temper earn him.  So Shooter not only sets about trying to get Happy kicked off the tour, but he also buys Grandma Gilmore’s house.  Will Happy win the tour championship and get the house back into family hands?

Happy Gilmore is the David vs. Goliath, insider vs. outsider, fish-out-of-water, class conflict story that works so well when a popular star plays the underdog.  Sandler has a likable sort of every man quality about him.  Christopher McDonald plays a great comic villain, mostly because he has a sense of humor about himself even when he plays the heavy.  His looks and demeanor says “stuffed shirt, upper class jerk,” and while he obviously takes his work seriously, he never takes himself so seriously that he can’t be the fall guy.

On the strength of a good comic villain/hero dynamic and some nice (but tiny) supporting performances, I recommend Happy Gilmore.  For Sandler fans, it’s a must see.

7 of 10

B+

★★★½ out of 4 stars

Edited for the original:  Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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Review: "MARIA FULL OF GRACE" Remains a Timely Film

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 15 (of 2005) by Leroy Douresseaux

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA/Columbia; Language: Spanish/English

Running time:  101 minutes (1 hour, 41 minutes)

Rating: MPAA – R for drug content and language

WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Joshua Marston

PRODUCER:  Paul S. Mezey

CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Jim Denault

EDITORS:  Anne McCabe and Lee Percy

COMPOSERS:  Leonardo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman

Academy Award nominee

DRAMA/CRIME/THRILLER

Starring:  Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, John Alex Toro, Guilied Lopez, Patricia Rae, Orlando Tobon, Fernando Velasquez, and Jaime Osorio Gomez

Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 Spanish-language drama film from writer-director Joshua Marston.  The film is a co-production between the U.S. and Colombia.  Maria Full of Grace focuses on a pregnant Colombian teenager who becomes a drug mule for a trafficking ring in order to make desperately-needed money for her family.

Catalina Sandino Moreno earned a 2005 Oscar nomination in the category of “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” for her performance as a teenage coke mule in Joshua Marston’s Maria Full of Grace.  Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is a spirited 17-year old girl who lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in impoverished rural Columbia.  After learning that she may be pregnant, Maria suddenly quits her job stripping roses at a flower plantation after her boss continually hassles her because of her morning sickness.

She meets a handsome, motorcycle-riding young man named Franklin (John Alex Toro), who introduces her to the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking.  She meets his boss, Javier (Jaime Osorio Gomez), who pays Maria a lot of money to swallow over 50 latex pellets containing cocaine.  With the pellets in her stomach, she flies to New York City with three other coke mules, including her friend, Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega) and a somewhat experienced carrier named Lucy (Guilied Lopez), where they are too deliver the drugs to men waiting in a hotel.  Complications arise, and Maria must gain the grace to survive and move towards a brighter future.

Maria Full of Grace is a quiet and compelling drama, but it is also as riveting and as thrilling as the best edge-of-your-seat crime films.  Catalina Sandino Moreno gives a gripping performance as a strong of heart young woman who is quiet savvy in even the worst circumstances.  A lot of Ms. Moreno’s performance is shown through her face and soulful eyes, and she engages her audience without any flashy tricks.  Writer/director Joshua Marston gets similar performances from all of his talented supporting cast, and his film is similar in tone to 2003’s Dirty Pretty Things, meaning that it’s a superb, taut drama that I highly recommend.

8 of 10

A

★★★★ out of 4 stars

Edited from the original: Sunday, July 20, 2025

NOTES:

2005 Academy Awards, USA:  1 nomination:  “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” (Catalina Sandino Moreno)

2005 NAACP Image Awards (NAACP):  1 nomination: “Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film”

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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 13th to 19th, 2025 - UPDATE #11

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

TELEVISION - From Deadline:  ABC has announced the premiere dates for its Fall 2025 television season.  That includes a 8PM Eastern arrival for the flagship "9-1-1," and a 9 PM Eastern debut for its latest spinoff, "9-1-1 Nashville."

TELEVISION - From Variety:  Talk show host Stephen Colbert announced that CBS is cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," with the last episode scheduled for May 2026.  He also announced that CBS is ending "The Late Show" and won't replace it. Colbert has been hosting the show since 2015.

NETFLIX/ANIMATION - From Deadline:  Netflix has produced a red-band trailer for "Fixed," the R-rated animated comedy film from director Genndy Tartakovsy ("Hotel Transylvania").  The film is about a randy dog named "Bull," who is about to get neutered.

EMMYS - From Deadline:  The nominations of the 2025 / 77th Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced. The winners in 25 categories will be announced September 14, 2025, airing live on CBS and Paramount+.  The corresponding Creative Arts Emmy winners will be announced during a two-night ceremony of September 6th and 7th, 2025.  Apple TV+'s "Severance" led with 27 nominations.

From Variety:  Days after celebrating his 83rd birthday, Harrison Ford, earns his first Primetime Emmy nomination, which is in the category "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series."  He is the second oldest nominee in that category after the late Adam Arkin earned a nomination in 2020 at the age of 86.

TELEVISION - From Variety:  HBO has provided a first-look of Nick Frost as "Rubeus Hagrid" in its upcoming "Harry Potter" television series.

MOVIES - From Deadline:   Blumhouse has laid off six staffers across film, television, and casting in the wake of the box office disappointment of its most recent film, "M3GAN 2.0."

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro:  The winner of the 7/11 to 7/13/2025 weekend box office is Warner Bros. Picture/DC Studios' Superman with an estimated take of 122 million dollars.

From Deadline:  Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav celebrates a box office win with Superman saying that his is just the beginning for the "DC Universe."

STREAMING/ANIMATION - From Deadline:  "South Park" and Paramount+ are involved in negotiations involving the rights to stream the series. That has led to the long-running animated series being removed from the international version of Paramount+.

OBITS:

From Deadline:  American songwriter, Alan Bergman, had died at the age of 99, Thursday, July 18, 2025.  Bergman was best known for his collaboration with his late wife, Marilyn Keith Bergman (1928-2022).  The couple won three Oscars for the film music, including twice for "Best Original Song."  The won two Grammy Awards, including "Song of the Year" (for "The Way We Were" with songwriter Marvin Hamlisch).  The couple also wrote the theme songs for the television series, "The Sandy Duncan Show," and two former CBS sitcoms, "Maude" (1972-78), and its spinoff, "Good Times" (1974-79).

From Deadline:  British television actress, Judy Loe, has died at the age of 78, Tuesday, July 15, 2025.  Loe was a regular in such British TV series as "Ace of Wands," "Edward the Seventh," and "General Hospital" (not related to the American soap opera), to name a few.  She was a guest in such series "Man at the Top," "Ripping Yarns," and "Inspector Morse," to name a few.  Loe was also the mother of actress, Kate Beckinsale, best known for her role in the "Underworld" film franchise.