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Grandma's Boy, 2006

Starring: Allen Covert

Directed by: Nicholas Goossen

Written by: Allen Covert

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 94 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.9

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The mood of Grandma's Boy is humorous. The plot centers around stoners, buddies, and disorder. It features grossout humor and irreverent humor. Grandma's Boy is a comedy movie. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The setting is the USA. Grandma's Boy happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for teens. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, nudity, and sexual content.

Summary of Grandma's Boy

Produced by Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, and written by and starring Allen Covert (a supporting player in several Sandler vehicles), GRANDMA'S BOY is an unapologetic ode to immaturity in 20- and 30-something males that features all of the staples of the genre---beer, bosoms, bongs, video games, and a karate kicking chimp. Covert's script, which revels in its nerdiness, details the plight of Alex, a 35-year-old video game tester who finds himself homeless when he discovers that his roommate has spent the last six months of their rent at a brothel. Left with no other option, he accepts his Grandma Lilly's (Doris Roberts) offer to stay with her and her two roommates--randy Grace (Shirley Jones) and near-catatonic Bea (Shirley Knight)--until he gets back on his feet. Though it seems that this new arrangement will wreak havoc on his highly social, pot-smoking life, and his attempts to romance his boss, Samantha (Linda Cardellini), he finds that closing the generation gap is much easier than expected.

A low-budget ($5 million) relative of popular male-bonding comedies such as OLD SCHOOL, THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, and WEDDING CRASHERS, GRANDMA'S BOY has a comparable anarchic style which, despite a multitude of gags you wouldn't want to watch with your parents, still seems to have nothing but the best of audience-pleasing intentions. Throw in some great music and several affectionate--and spot-on--skewerings of the geek lifestyle, and you have a classic depiction of arrested development that bears repeat viewings--especially if you're watching it in a dorm room.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	6 January 2006
Runtime:	94 min

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Allen Covert

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Nick Swardson and Shirley Jones in Grandma's Boy (2006)

Allen Covert and director Nick Goossen on the set of Grandma's Boy (2006)

Kelvin Yu, Jonah Hill, Peter Dante and Abadoulaye N'Gom in Grandma's Boy (2006)

Shirley Knight, Doris Roberts and Shirley Jones in Grandma's Boy (2006)

Jonah Hill and Heidi Lee Hawking in Grandma's Boy (2006)

Allen Covert and Doris Roberts in Grandma's Boy (2006)

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement. Full Review

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by: Liam Lacey

The New York Times

It cheerfully invites the audience to descend to their level, where no joke is too silly or raunchy, and a plot is just a way of passing time between game levels and bong hits. Full Review

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by: Dana Stevens

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This film takes a promising premise and proceeds to trash it. The inscessent drug references and potty humor ultimately translate into a vicious little movie. This unintentional expose of our popular culture illuminates the question of why others in... Read and rate it

04.March.2011
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by: Dale Williams
Dale Williams rated this movie0/10

So hey, don't let the listing throw you off here. David Spade and Rob Schneider come nowhere near this excellent film :) Read and rate it

30.August.2010
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by: gonzodamus
gonzodamus rated this movie0/10

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