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| - Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) is an aspiring ice hockey player who possesses a powerful and dangerous slapshot that his late father (Louis O'Donoghue) taught him as a child (Donnie MacMillan), though his over aggressive streak and lack of skating talent consistently preclude him from joining a hockey team. His girlfriend Terry (Nancy McClure), a schoolteacher, leaves him because of his hockey obsession. His grandmother (Frances Bay), who raised him after his father died and Happy's mother had left the family, has not paid her taxes for many years. As such, she owes the IRS $270,000 in back taxes, and the house that Happy's late grandfather "built with his bare hands" is about to be seized. Gilmore has only 90 days to come up with the money or else the house will be sold to someone else. Grandma Gilmore is forced to temporarily move into a retirement home, run by a sadistic manager named Hal (Ben Stiller in an uncredited role). While repossessing Grandma's furniture, a pair of movers challenge Happy to hit golf balls. With his unorthodox, hockey slapshot-style swing (running up to the ball instead of standing over it), he hits the ball 400 yards three times, winning $40 as a result. This gives Happy the idea to go to the driving range to hustle golfers with his swing. When his progress is noticed by former golf star and current club pro Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers), whose pro golf career ended when his right hand was bitten off by an alligator in 1965 (though he managed to tear out one of its eyes afterwards), he convinces Happy to enter a local tournament by telling him he can make "big bucks". Happy wins the tournament and earns a spot on the Pro Golf Tour (fictionalized golf tour based on the PGA Tour). Chubbs advises Happy to wait to join the tour for six months, so that Chubbs can make him a better all-around golfer (calling his putting "embarrassing"). Against Chubbs' advice Happy joins the tour immediately to come up with the money for his Grandma's house within three months, which Chubbs is unaware of. On the tour, Happy encounters Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), who sees Happy as both a detriment to golf and a threat to his career. Although Happy has a powerful drive, his putting is terrible with violent outbursts and lack of golf etiquette eventually leading Commissioner Doug Thompson (Dennis Dugan) to expel him from the tour. PR head Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen) convinces him to change his mind, citing higher television ratings, increasing attendance, drawing more youthful sponsors and that she's willing to work with Gilmore on his anger issues. Thompson threatens to fire her as well if there are any further incidents. Happy begins to develop a cooler head while continuing to improve in tournaments. At the tournament Happy is paired with Bob Barker, then host/executive producer of the long-running CBS Daytime game show The Price Is Right. Donald (Joe Flaherty), employed by Shooter, immediately starts heckling Happy, taking his focus off his game so much that he plays terribly (putting him and Barker in last place). Exasperated at Happy's poor performance, Barker even begins criticizing him before they break into a full-scale brawl, in which Barker knocks Happy unconscious by kicking him in the face. As a result, Thompson fines Gilmore $25,000 and suspends him from the tour for one month; Shooter demands Happy be expelled, but Thompson refuses, citing the highest television ratings ever. Happy secures an endorsement deal with Subway which gives him $275,000, which is more than enough money to buy back Grandma's house and pay the fine. However, Happy discovers that the house is to be sold at an auction. Despite bidding $275,000, Happy is outbid by Shooter who has purchased the house for $350,000, and leverages a deal with Happy – he will let him have the house back in return for quitting the tour. Although Happy initially accepted the proposal, Virginia convinces him to reconsider. Instead, Happy decides to make a bet with his rival based on the upcoming Tour Championship – if Happy beats Shooter, he gets the house back, but if Shooter beats Happy, he will quit the tour forever; Shooter agrees. Although Virginia is confident Happy will win, Happy is not as confident. He seeks the help of Chubbs, admitting his past mistakes. Together they head to a miniature golf course so Happy can improve his putting. One of Chubbs' key tricks for helping Happy improve by helping him concentrate and relax is to have him think of his own "happy place". Pleased with Happy's progress, Chubbs gives his protege a modified putter fashioned in the shape of a hockey stick as a present to use for the tournament. In return, Happy presents Chubbs with the head of the alligator that took his hand (which Happy had killed in a previous tournament). Horrified by the sight, Chubbs reels backward, causing him to fall out the window to his death. Determined to win the tournament for Chubbs, Happy is evenly matched with Shooter after the first two rounds and leads Shooter by the end of the third day. In desperation, Shooter once again cheats and calls on Donald. The next day Donald hits Happy with a Volkswagen Beetle, which he then accidentally rams into a television tower at the 18th hole. After an amazing comeback by Happy, Shooter makes his shot for par on the 18th hole; the TV tower collapses and blocks Happy's putt for birdie. Although Virginia suggests play be suspended so the mess can be cleaned up, Shooter protests, citing the fact that earlier he had to hit a ball off a fan (Happy's old boss Mr. Larson (Richard Kiel)'s foot, as his request for a drop was denied). Virginia then tells Happy to go around the tower and then putt for the par and send the tournament to sudden death but instead, he opts to go for the win (the Tour Championship and the house) with the trick shot he learned from Chubbs. Afterwards, an angry and hysterical Shooter attempts to steal Happy's gold jacket (his prize for winning the tournament), but is chased down and presumably beaten up by Mr. Larson and an angry mob of spectators. Back at Grandma's house, the film closes with Happy being congratulated by the two-handed ghost of Chubbs, Abraham Lincoln, and the alligator.
- Happy Gilmore is the main protagonist of the 1996 comedy of the same name. He is played by Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore has long aspired to be a hockey player. Despite a powerful slapshot, Happy's inability to skate and his volatile behavior excludes him from being accepted by any hockey team. Furthermore, Happy's grandma is being evicted from her home after failing to pay her taxes. After playing with some golf clubs and learning he can shoot golf balls far distances, he decides to join the PGA Tour in an effort to win money to buy back his grandma's home. Happy's bad-boy image attracts a loyal following, but also attracts the attention of Shooter McGavin, the favorite to win the PGA Tour who is worried that Happy's rise to stardom will undermine his shot to win. == Biography == At the beginning of the movie Happy Gilmore talks about his life. His mom moved to Egypt because of his father's obsession for hockey. Shortly after that, his father was killed by a hockey puck to the head. Then Happy was forced to move in with his grandmother. Happy had many jobs like janitor, gas station attendant, security guard, plumber and a construction worker. The construction job didn't work out well because he shot his giant boss, Mr. Larsen in the head with a nail gun which got Happy beaten up very badly. Happy has hockey tryouts and doesn't make the team so he gets in a fist fight with the coach of the team. When Happy gets home, his girlfriend leaves him because she says he is a loser. The next morning Happy goes to his Grandma's house because the IRS is going to take her home and everything in it. Happy is angry so he throws the IRS agent through the front door. He is told to get the house back, they need to come up with $270,000. Happy wants to watch the hockey game at his grandma's house so he goes outside to tell the moving guys to get back to work. The 2 guys try out golf clubs and then challenge Happy to see if he can outdrive one of them. If he does then they will get back to work. Happy hits the ball over 400 yards and breaks a window of a house. Then the men ask him do it again for $20. He does it and hits a man in the head. Then they offer him double or nothing and he does and this time hits woman in the head and she falls off a roof. That is when he notices his ability to drive a golf ball. Happy then brings his grandma to the nursing home where she will live. The next day Happy goes to the driving range to hustle people and earn some money. He outdrives everyone there. A former club pro with a fake hand, Chubbs Peterson introduces himself near the batting cages and tells him to enter the Waterbury Open. Happy refuses but Chubbs tells him he can make money. Happy thinks of grandma so he decides to enter the Waterbury Open. The day of the Waterbury Open, Shooter McGavin is introduced to everyone there. He is the top pro golfer and the money leader. The winner of the Waterbury Open gets to join the Pro Tour. Happy Gilmore wins the Waterbury Open. Chubbs offers Happy six months of training to get better at putting but he refuses. Happy needs the money within a certain amount of time and can't afford to miss the oppurtunity to win money on the tour. Happy meets Virginia) who is a journalist for the tour. Happy Gilmore attends a tour party and is told by Shooter to meet him at the 9th green at nine. Happy goes and the sprinklers go off so now he wants to beat up Shooter. Happy goes to visit grandma at the nursing home and she pretends to like it there even though she hates it. The orderly threatens her and says if she tells Happy that they abuse people then she will be killed. The AT&T Open is the first event of the tour and Happy Gilmore doesn't do very well. Happy Gilmore and Virginia go on a date to ice skate and she kisses Happy. Later in the tour Happy is paired with Bob Barker in a tournament. Bob Barker is mad at Happy for doing bad in the tournament because a man is annoying Happy. Happy gets in a fistfight with Bob and loses. Chubbs takes Happy to a miniature golf course to play a game. Happy does good so Chubbs gives him a putter that looks like a hockey stick as a gift. Happy tells Chubbs that he has a gift for him and opens up a wooden box. The box contains the alligator that bit of Chubbs hand. Chubbs is so frightened, he accidentally falls out of the window and dies. Shooter McGavin buys the house at the auction and says he will piss on the ashes after he burns it down. Happy is threatened so he must now win the tour. The final event of the year is the Tour Championship which can get Happy enough money to get his grandma' house back. Shooter is intimidated by Happy so he hires people to distract Happy Gilmore during the championship. The match is close the whole way. A crazy fan, ordered by Shooter, runs Happy over with a car, but Happy is still okay. After the crazy man, ran over Happy, he drives into a tower which falls onto the green blocking Happy's chance for a birdie to win the tour. The judges say that he must play it as it is. Happy remembers the amazing putt he made at the miniature golf course and it is similar here. Happy hits the ball of the car and it goes through pipes and amazingly lands in the hole. Happy wins the tour championship and gets the gold jacket. Shooter steals the jacket and runs away with it but Mr. Larsen catches him and beats him up. Happy, Virginia, Grandma and the homeless man who was Happy's caddy all go back to grandma's house.
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