Grown Ups (film)

2010 film by Dennis Dugan

Grown Ups

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Dennis Dugan
Written by|

* Adam Sandler
* Fred Wolf

Produced by|

* Adam Sandler
* Jack Giarraputo

Starring|

* Adam Sandler
* Kevin James
* Chris Rock
* David Spade
* Rob Schneider
* Salma Hayek
* Maria Bello
* Maya Rudolph

Cinematography| Theo van de Sande
Edited by| Tom Costain
Music by| Rupert Gregson-Williams

Production
companies

Columbia Pictures
Happy Madison Productions
Relativity Media

Distributed by| Sony Pictures Releasing

Release date

* June 25, 2010 (2010-06-25)

Running time

| 102 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English
Budget| $75 million[1]
Box office| $272.2 million[1]

Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf, produced by Sandler and Jack Giarraputo, and starring Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider, with Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph in supporting roles. The film's plot tells the story of five lifelong friends who won their junior high school basketball championship in 1978. They reunite three decades later for a 4th of July weekend after learning about the sudden death of their former coach.

Produced by Sandler's Happy Madison Productions in association with Relativity Media, Grown Ups was released in the United States on June 25, 2010, by Columbia Pictures.[2] Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, it grossed $272.2 million and led to a sequel, Grown Ups 2, in 2013.

## Plot

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In 1978, childhood friends Lenny Feder, Eric Lamonsoff, Kurt McKenzie, Marcus Higgins, and Rob Hilliard win their junior high basketball championship. They celebrate at a lake house with their coach Robert "Buzzer" Ferdinando.

Thirty years later, in 2008, Lenny is a wealthy and successful Hollywood talent agent, married to fashion designer Roxanne, and has three children: Greg, Keith, and Becky. Eric claims to co-own a lawn furniture company and has two children: Donna and Bean; his wife Sally still breastfeeds Bean. Kurt is a stay-at-home father and has two children: Andre and Charlotte; his wife, Deanne, is pregnant with their third child, and her mother Ronzoni lives with them. Marcus is a slacker and lothario. Rob is married to his much older fourth wife, Gloria.

When Buzzer dies, the five friends reunite for his funeral in their hometown with their families. Lenny rents a lake house in the same town for everyone to stay over Fourth of July weekend, though his family is leaving early to attend Roxanne's fashion show in Milan. He pushes his boys to play outside and runs into his childhood opponent Dickie, who claims Lenny's foot was out of bounds when he made the winning shot and has been obsessed with getting a rematch to rectify the perceived 'mistake'.

As the friends spread Buzzer's ashes, Rob breaks down over his failed marriages and reveals that he has invited his estranged daughters Jasmine, Amber, and Bridget to visit. The men play "arrow roulette", shooting an arrow straight into the air, and Rob wins by not running for cover, but the arrow impales his left foot, causing him to 'snap' at Gloria from the pain, who rushed to his aid with unconventional methods.

The next day, Lenny is thrilled to find the kids playing with cup-and-string telephones. Realizing the positive impact the weekend is having on their children, Roxanne tells Lenny to cancel their Milan trip and stay at the lake instead.

Everyone visits Water Wizz where Marcus flirts with Jasmine and Amber after buying them skimpy bikinis, and Eric teaches Bean to drink cow's milk. The families cause chaos throughout the park: the wives attract a bodybuilder, then jeer at his high-pitched Canadian accent; Rob assaults a slide attendant when he insults Bridget, and Eric ignores Donna's warning about a chemical in the pool that turns urine blue. At the zipline attraction, Lenny's group meets up with Dickie, accompanied by his son, his former teammates, and his friend Wiley, who is then severely injured after crashing into a shed while sliding down the zipline using his feet.

The next day, Rob attacks Marcus, mistakenly believing that he slept with Jasmine, and Marcus admits to feeling insecure compared to his happily married friends. Everyone comes clean about the state of their lives: Roxanne confronts Lenny for canceling their flight to Milan before they left home, and he explains he wanted their family to have a normal vacation and to rein in his children's disrespectful attitudes; Deanne confronts Kurt for spending time with the Feders' nanny Rita, but Kurt retaliates by pointing out how she under-appreciates him; Eric reveals that he was laid off from his job, and was showing off the whole time so the others wouldn't humiliate him; Rob admits what everybody already knows – that he wears a toupee. Gloria helps everyone reconcile, and Lenny and Kurt offer to help Eric start a new business.

On their last day at the lake house, Lenny and his friends agree to a rematch against Dickie, Robideaux, Muzby, Tardio, and Malcolm. The game culminates in Lenny and Greg facing Dickie and his son, but Lenny misses the game-deciding shot. As the families watch the Fourth of July fireworks, Lenny tells Roxanne that he let Dickie's family win to get him off his case and felt that his own family needed to know what losing feels like. A drunken Marcus plays another game of arrow roulette, and the crowd flees in panic. Trapped in a full-body cast, Wiley is struck in the foot by the arrow as he quotes that they beat them again before fainting.

## Cast

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* Adam Sandler as Lenny Feder, a Hollywood talent agent
* Kevin James as Eric Lamonsoff, a friend of Lenny and former worker at Branchville Lawn Furniture
* Chris Rock as Kurt McKenzie, a friend of Lenny
* David Spade as Marcus Higgins, a friend of Lenny
* Rob Schneider as Rob Hilliard, a hippie friend of Lenny
* Salma Hayek[a] as Roxanne Chase-Feder, a fashion designer and Lenny's wife
* Maria Bello as Sally Lamonsoff, Eric's wife
* Maya Rudolph as Deanne McKenzie, Kurt's wife
* Joyce Van Patten as Gloria Noonan, Rob's elderly fourth wife
* Colin Quinn as Dickie Bailey, a restaurant chef at "Woodman's Eat in the Rough" and Lenny's childhood rival
* Steve Buscemi as Wiley, one of Dickie's friends
* Tim Meadows as Malcolm, one of Dickie's friends and former teammates
* Rob's daughters, all half-sisters:
* Madison Riley as Jasmine Hilliard, from his first marriage
* Jamie Chung as Amber Hilliard, from his second marriage
* Ashley Loren as Bridget Hilliard, from his third marriage
* Lenny and Roxanne's children:
* Jake Goldberg as Greg Feder, their 13-year-old son
* Cameron Boyce as Keithie Feder, their 11-year-old son
* Alexys Nycole Sanchez as Becky Feder, their daughter and youngest child
* Kurt and Deanne's children:
* Nadji Jeter as Andre McKenzie, their 13-year-old son
* China Anne McClain as Charlotte McKenzie, their 11-year-old daughter
* Jonathan Loughran as Robideaux, Dickie's friend and former teammate

## Production

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Sandler, Rock, Schneider, and Spade met when they all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1990–1991 season; supporting cast members Colin Quinn, Rudolph, Tim Meadows, and Norm Macdonald have also been SNL cast members. Before he died in 1997, Chris Farley was originally considered to be part of the film during its earliest conception.[3]

Filming commenced in Essex County, Massachusetts, in August 2009.[4] Chebacco Lake was used to portray the fictional Amoskeag Lake where the Earnshaw family's lake house setting was.[5] Woodman's of Essex was used for the restaurant "Woodman's Eat in the Rough.[6] Water Wizz was used as the filming location for the water park scene.[7][8]

## Release

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### Box office

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Grown Ups grossed $162 million in the United States and $110.2 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $272.2 million against a production budget of $75 million.[1] Grown Ups surpassed Click to become Sandler's highest-grossing film worldwide.[9] Happy with the gross, Adam Sandler showed his appreciation by buying brand-new Maserati sports cars for his four co-stars.[10]

### Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, Grown Ups has an approval percentage of 10% based on 169 reviews and an average rating of 3.40/10. The critics consensus reads: "Grown Ups' cast of comedy vets is amiable, but they're let down by flat direction and the scattershot, lowbrow humor of a stunted script."[11] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 30 out of 100 based on 32 critic reviews, meaning "generally unfavorable".[12] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[13]

Connie Ogle of the Miami Herald referred to it as "the perfect poster child for this maddening summer of movie mediocrity."[14] Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail criticized what he saw as blatant commercialism, saying the cast "lob[bed] gags they surely disdain at an audience they probably despise while reserving their own laughter for that off-camera dash all the way to the bank." Richard Roeper went as far as to say that it was "a blight upon the bright canvas of American cinema", and that he hated it.[15] Tom Long of the Detroit News called it "trite comedy" and "total garbage."[16] On the other end of the spectrum, Lisa Kennedy of the Denver Post called it "crude and decent-hearted" and "easy, breezy, predictable."[17]

### Awards

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Rob Schneider was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for the film, but lost to Jackson Rathbone for both The Last Airbender and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.[citation needed]

The film won at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards for the "Best Line from a Movie" category, which it won for the line "I want to get chocolate wasted!", delivered by Becky, played by Alexys Nycole Sanchez.[18][citation needed]

### Home media

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Grown Ups was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 9, 2010 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

## Music

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Songs featured in the film

* "Come Back" - The J. Geils Band
* "Devil Woman" - Cliff Richard
* "Raga for a Whale" - Kamal Engels
* "I'm a Gangsta" - Global Operator ft. Mike West
* "Ave Maria" - Sung by Rob Schneider (Originally by Franz Schubert)
* "Last Child" - Aerosmith
* "A Life of Illusion" - Joe Walsh
* "A Night Like This" - The Romantics
* "Love Is Alive" - Gary Wright
* "I Could Be Good for You" - 707
* "When Things Go Wrong" - Robin Lane
* "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" - Bob Seger (Also in the Trailer)
* "Lay It On the Line" - Triumph
* "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes
* "Walk All Over You" - AC/DC
* "Time for Me to Fly" - REO Speedwagon
* "Just Can't Wait" - The J. Geils Band
* "Ready for Love" - Bad Company
* "Come and Get Your Love" - Redbone
* "Goodnight Tonight" - Paul McCartney and Wings
* "Just Got Back" - Cheap Trick
* "The Party's Over" - Journey
* "Sentimental Lady" - Bob Welch
* "Monday Morning" - Fleetwood Mac
* "Two Tickets to Paradise" - Eddie Money
* "I Do" - The J. Geils Band (Also in the Trailer)
* "Every 1's a Winner" - Hot Chocolate
* "Better Things" - The Kinks
* "Count On Me" - Jefferson Starship
* "Stan the Man" - Adam Sandler

Songs that appeared in the trailer:

* "All Night Long" - Joe Walsh
* "All Over The World" - Electric Light Orchestra

## Sequel

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Main article: Grown Ups 2

A sequel, titled Grown Ups 2, was released on July 12, 2013. Dennis Dugan, the director of the first film, returned as director. The main cast, including Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello and Steve Buscemi reprised their roles, except Rob Schneider. New cast includes Andy Samberg, Taylor Lautner and Patrick Schwarzenegger. The sequel follows Lenny Feder as he relocates his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up.[19] Like its predecessor, Grown Ups 2 received very poor reviews[20] but was still a box office hit.[21]

## Notes

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1. ^ Salma Hayek was credited as Salma Hayek Pinault in the end credits.

## References

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1. ^ a b c Grown Ups (2010) - Financial Information Archived June 21, 2023, at the Wayback Machine The Numbers
2. ^ Tatiana Siegel (February 10, 2009). "Columbia pic gets Sandler and friends". Variety. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
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4. ^ Shanahan, Mark (May 18, 2009). "Adam Sandler et al. get to work on "Grown Ups"". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on May 21, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
5. ^ Kirkley, Eli (August 10, 2015). "4 Famous Movie Lakes and Their Actual Location". Lake Homes Realty Articles and Info - LakeHomes.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
6. ^ Carbone, Gina. "Adam Sandler film shoot prompts restaurant closure in Essex, Mass". seacoastonline.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
7. ^ "The Most Famous Water Park in Massachusetts". TripSavvy. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
8. ^ Waterhouse, Gail (July 4, 2013). "Water Wizz in Wareham rides Hollywood wave". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 3, 2014. "Not many family-run businesses can say they've been featured in a Hollywood film, but Water Wizz has been in two major motion pictures in four years. The first was Grown Ups, a 2010 movie produced by Adam Sandler."
9. ^ "Adam Sandler Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 16, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
10. ^ Bowman, Zach (November 11, 2010). "Adam Sandler gives the gift of Maserati to Grown Ups co-stars". Autoblog.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
11. ^ "Grown Ups". Rotten Tomatoes.
12. ^ "Grown Ups". Metacritic.
13. ^ "Home - Cinemascore". cinemascore.com.
14. ^ Connie Ogle, Grown Ups (PG-13): Five goofballs and a funeral, Miami Herald (June 24, 2010).
15. ^ Rick Groen (June 25, 2010). "Grown Ups: How low can they go? Just watch". Globe & Mail. Archived from the original on December 8, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
16. ^ Tom Long, Review: Adam Sandler's 'Grown Ups' is a lazy, trite comedy Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Detroit News (June 25, 2010).
17. ^ Lisa Kennedy (June 23, 2010). "Movie review: "Grown Ups" — or are they?". The Denver Post. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
18. ^ "2011 MTV Movie Award Best Line from a Movie Acceptance Speech". YouTube. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
19. ^ "Grown Ups Sequel Planned". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
20. ^ "Grown Ups 2". Rotten Tomatoes. July 12, 2013. Archived from the original on August 22, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
21. ^ "Grown Ups 2 (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2014.

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* The Benchwarmers (2006)
* Click (2006)
* I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
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* Strange Wilderness (2008)
* The House Bunny (2008)
* You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
* Bedtime Stories (2008)
* Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
* The Shortcut (2009)
* Funny People (2009)
* Grown Ups (2010)
* Just Go with It (2011)
* Zookeeper (2011)
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