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Happy Gilmore
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2858
- IMDb #2127
- Google retired #785
- Rotten Tomatoes #1994
- Metacritic #3815
- Letterboxd #2462
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3015
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1072
- Metacritic Critics #4748
- Metacritic Audience #1030
- Criticker #2157
- Douban #2069
- Kinopoisk #1737
- AlloCiné #3447
- Trakt #1728
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Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 31, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 48, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A failed ice hockey player with a powerful slapshot but a terrible temper discovers a unique talent for golf. Needing money to save his grandmother's house, he joins the professional golf tour. His unorthodox, violent style and complete lack of etiquette clash with the sport's refined culture, making him a spectacle. He must channel his rage into focus to compete against the tour's arrogant champion and secure his family's future.
Details
- Director
- Dennis Dugan
- Writers
- Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy
- Released
- 16 February 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $41.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 4 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 win from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1997 | Worst Actor - Adam Sandler (also for Bulletproof ) | Nominee | |
| Kids' Choice Awards 1997 | Best Movie | Nominee | |
| MTV Movie Award 1996 | Best Comedic Performance - Adam Sandler | Nominee | |
| MTV Movie Award 1996 | Best Fight - Adam Sandler and Bob Barker | Winner | |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1996 | Worst Actor - Adam Sandler | Nominee |
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×| Best Fight - Adam Sandler and Bob Barker | Winner | |
| Best Comedic Performance - Adam Sandler | Nominee |
| Worst Actor - Adam Sandler (also for Bulletproof ) | Nominee |
| Best Movie | Nominee |
| Worst Actor - Adam Sandler | Nominee |