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Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing ... read more read more...games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Alex took a big pay cut to land his dream job, he's happy with his work and is making ends meet -- until he discovers that his roommate hasn't paid the rent for the last six months, using the money to finance repeated visits to a local massage parlor. After running out of friends who will let him sleep on their couch, Alex swallows his pride and moves in with his grandma Lily (Doris Roberts), who loves Alex and is happy to give him a place to stay in exchange for doing chores around the house. Lily shares her home with two friends, perpetually confused Bea (Shirley Knight) and sexually adventurous Grace (Shirley Jones), and between the three of them, there's always work to be done, keeping Alex busy nearly every night. While Alex tells his co-workers he's living with three attractive women who are running him ragged, they don't know the real story; in the meantime, Alex is trying to charm Brainasium's beautiful new executive, Samantha (Linda Cardellini), while butting heads with the firm's space-case CEO Cheezle (Kevin Nealon) and J.P. (Joel David Moore), a teenage game designer who is no longer in touch with reality. Grandma's Boy was the first feature film from director Nicholaus Goossen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Nick Goossen

Release Date: January 6, 2006

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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006

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  • TheDudeLebowski65
    May 30, 2011
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Grandma's Boy is one enjoyable stoner comedy. I love this film. Though never really hilarious, the film is fairly humourous and is pretty well done. The plot is simple, but what makes this film work is the comical cast involved. Though not perfect, Grandma's Boy is at times char... read moreming, and is a lot of fun. This is the perfect comedy to watch with friends. The film is one of the few Happy Madison productions that I've found to be quite good and funny. Grandma's Boy is a fine little film with a good heart. This a fairly original stoner comedy that shouldn't be passed up. Sure it's not, Cheech and Chong, The Big Lebowski or Harold & Kumar, but Grandma's Boy is still a film worth seeing. I'd say it belongs on the list of the memorable stoner flicks for sure. I enjoyed this films and it's characters. The cast are very funny, especially Joel David as J.P the arrogant game designer who constantly makes robot noises. if you're having friends over for a movie night and want something that funny, and with mindless fun, pop this one in your DVD player. Guaranteed to provide you with a good time and good laughs. Grandma's Boy is a lot of fun and over every film that Happy Madison has put out, this is one of their best films. The Jokes are decent, but the characters themselves make the film what it is. Grandma's Boy is far from the worst comedy film, it has its faults, but as a whole it works well because it's simply a fun film to watch.
  • LoughnerWasLucid
    December 6, 2010
    LoughnerWasLucid
    So this is one of those movies that i know is just beyond dumb but i cant tell my friends that cause you know, whatever your friends are doing is obviously the thing to do, right? i mean i may think Grandma's boy sucks, but what do i know? ive been wrong before. remember Vans? th... read moreose were stupid shoes and i KNEW that, and i had to wear those for four years. on the other hand, Grandma's boy is like an hour and a half... Look my friends are right, ok. Its good. thanks to them, i know coke is good and this is too. i think.
  • FrizzDrop
    November 18, 2010
    FrizzDrop
    Allen Covert (a frequent collaborator of Adam Sandler's) and Nick Swardson make a dynamic duo like no other in this, one of the funniest films I have ever seen.
  • fb1463751009
    September 18, 2010
    fb1463751009
    surprisingly funny
  • fb733768972
    February 15, 2010
    fb733768972
    I don't usually like stupid comedies like this but this one was irresistable!http://static.flixstercdn.com/static/images/facebook/rating/post.button.gif
  • 3niR
    December 2, 2009
    3niR
    Not bad.
  • arashxak
    November 23, 2009
    arashxak
    Succeedes where most of other movies of its kind like Kevin Smith's films or Sandler's boring flicks fail, It knows what it is & keeps its silly fun tone till the end, It doesn't embarrass itself with trying to inject some sort of moral , it doesn't waste any time to depict a ser... read moreious romance which never works in this type of films, Special mention goes to the good cast & specially Allen Covert who is actually fun to watch unlike unfunny so-called comedians like Sandler or Ben Stiller
  • jlewis07
    October 18, 2009
    jlewis07
    A horribly unfunny, offensive, and unforgivable mess. Avoid at all costs.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    August 7, 2009
    DragonEyeMorrison
    Well, fuck it, this was a fun stoner/geek comedy. If you're in the mood for it that is. Allen Covert is everything Adam Sandler is not in the main lead, no idea why the guy keeps playing secondary characters for Sandler.
  • matertenebraum
    June 20, 2009
    matertenebraum
    Grandma's Boy Director: Nicholaus Goossen Starring: Allen Covert, Linda Cardellini, Peter Dante, Doris Roberts, Shirley Knight, Shirley Jones This film slipped in under the radar in Australia because of it's low gross in the US. The only reason I can see for it not making any ban... read morek is the fact that it did not having a "name" actor in the film. Grandma's Boy has got to be the funniest movie I've seen since Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy. I actually was choking on my popcorn I was laughing that much! The film follows video game tester and stoner Alex (a Mel Gibson looking Allen Covert) has he gets the ass from his apartment and has to live with his Grandma (Doris Roberts) and her two roommates (Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight). To make himself sound cool to his much younger co-workers, Alex makes out that he is living with 3 sex mad hot girls. This comes back to haunt him when he finds himself fancying new employee Samantha (Linda Cardellini). The film was produced by Adam Sandlers Happy Madison Production company so the film is full of Sandler alumni (including cameos from Rob Schneider and David Spade). If your looking for a film with no deep meaning and it's only intention is to make you laugh at gross out and inappropriate humour, this is the film for you.

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Critic Reviews

Gregory Kirschling
January 11, 2006
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

[The film] does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows. Full Review

Ronnie Scheib
January 9, 2006
Ronnie Scheib, Variety

The Sandler-patented mix of the deliberately offensive and the blatantly sentimental loses something in the maestro's absence. Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
January 9, 2006
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

Grandma's Boy is an Adam Sandler comedy without Adam Sandler, which is kind of like getting a root canal without the dentist. Full Review

Liam Lacey
January 9, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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

Jami Bernard
January 9, 2006
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

Even silly fun needs serious talent behind it. Full Review

Gene Seymour
January 9, 2006
Gene Seymour, Newsday

The kind of laid-back goofball comedy custom-designed to chase away any self-respecting respectable person and play to the good-natured slackers out there in the dark. If you're among the latter, you'... Full Review

Lisa Rose
January 9, 2006
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

While '06 is still young, chances are, 12 months from now, Grandma's Boy will rank as one of the year's worst comedies. Munich offers more laughs. Full Review

Ty Burr
January 9, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

No one here has the slightest idea what being elderly actually means or that old folks may once have been (and may still be) far hipper than the young men and women looking at them with fond incompreh... Full Review

Lou Lumenick
January 9, 2006
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Nicholaus Goossen, another Sandler protégé, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this limp collection of clichés larded with product plugs.

James Berardinelli
January 8, 2006
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

This is one of those movies where you stay rooted in your seat just to see how bad it can really get. And every time you think it has hit the bottom, the filmmakers find a passage taking them lower. Full Review

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