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==Release==
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===Box office===
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The film was a box office success grossing $162,001,186 in the [[United States]] and $109,429,003 in other countries, with a worldwide gross of $271,430,189.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> The film was also nominated 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 Nicole Sanchez.
The film was a box office success grossing $162,001,186 in the [[United States]] and $109,429,003 in other countries, with a wienier growth of 271,430,189.feet <ref name=autogenerated1 /> The film was also nominated 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 Nicole Sanchez.


===Critical reception===
===Critical reception===

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Grown Ups
Directed byDennis Dugan
Written byAdam Sandler
Fred Wolf
Produced byJack Giarraputo
Adam Sandler
StarringAdam Sandler
Kevin James
Chris Rock
David Spade
Rob Schneider
CinematographyTheo van de Sande
Edited byTom Costain
Music byRupert Gregson-Williams
Production
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Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 25, 2010 (2010-06-25)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$70 million–$80 million[1]
Box office$271,430,189[2]

Grown Ups is a 2010 American buddy-comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. Sandler and Fred Wolf wrote the script. The film was produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.[3] Sandler, Rock, Schneider, and Spade all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1990–1991 season; supporting cast including Colin Quinn, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows and Norm MacDonald have also been SNL cast members.

Plot

In 1978, five childhood friends won their junior high basketball championship. During the celebration at a rented lake house, their coach "Buzzer" (Blake Clark) encourages them to live their lives in a similar way to how they played the game. Thirty two years later, the five friends have since separated. Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) is a high-powered Hollywood talent agent who is married to Roxanne (Salma Hayek), a fashion designer, and has three kids. His sons Greg and Keithie have become very spoiled, much to his annoyance. Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James) claims he is now a co-owner of a lawn furniture company, is married to Sally (Maria Bello) and has two kids, Donna and Bean. Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock) is a stay-at-home father who is married to Deanne (Maya Rudolph), the primary breadwinner of the family, and has two kids. Deanne is pregnant with another child and Deanne's mother also lives with the family. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice-divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than he is. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) is a lazy womanizer. All of them regularly harass each other in comedic fashion throughout the movie; Lenny for being rich (although he tries to downplay it), Eric for being overweight, Kurt for being skinny and not being more useful, Rob for his way of saying "Hey!" (and other rhyming words) and for having a much older wife, and Marcus for being a slacker.

When the five friends found out that Buzzer has died, they all return to New England with their families to attend his private funeral. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th of July weekend for his friends to stay at, but Lenny can't stay for the whole weekend because Roxanne has a fashion show in Milan. While at the lake house, Lenny is annoyed that their kids would rather play video games than spend time outdoors, so he and the others force their kids to play outside during their stay. Eric has a small incident on a rope swing and injures a bird. At a local restaurant, Lenny runs into his old nemesis Dickie Bailey (Colin Quinn), who is still upset at Lenny because he allegedly had his foot out of bounds when he made the long-ago game winning shot and challenges him and his friends to a rematch, but Lenny declines, declaring it a waste of time. During the vacation everybody tries to reach their inner child, laughter will follow and some secrets will be revealed as these five hilarious guys and their families get along. Afterwards, Roxanne figured out that it was more important to stay since the kids are growing fond of the lake and such. Then, they went to the water park the next day. There, Bean learns to drink milk out of a carton, while Marcus flirts constantly with Jasmine and Amber, much to Rob's dismay. The women then meet a young Canadian man whom they learn funny words. In a kiddie pool, an accident occurs when one of the kids, Donna places a chemical that turns urine to blue in the pool, causing every other children to run in fear. Eric and Lenny along with his son go to the zip line and meet Dickie again, this time with one of his best friends Wiley (Steve Buscemi), who ends up in the hospital after an accident there. Later the group plays basketball. Lenny is teaching his son to shoot hoops and told him about (Sex).

Cast

Production

Filming commenced in Southborough, Massachusetts on May 18, 2009, but most of the filming was done in Essex, Massachusetts, Water Wizz at Wareham, Massachusetts, as well as some scenes shot in Marblehead, Massachusetts on the exclusive Marblehead Neck.[4] The restaurant scene takes place in Woodman's of Essex. The "lake house" and basketball scene at the end were filmed at Chebacco Lake in Essex, MA. The film was scheduled to be released on July 1, 2010, but the production company moved it to June 25, 2010.

Music

The score to Grown Ups was composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams, who recorded his score with a 55-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.[5]

Release

Box office

The film was a box office success grossing $162,001,186 in the United States and $109,429,003 in other countries, with a wienier growth of 271,430,189.feet [2] The film was also nominated 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 Nicole Sanchez.

Critical reception

The film has received mostly negative reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 10% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 151 reviews, with an average score of 3.3/10, and its consensus states that "Grown Ups' cast of comedy vets is amiable, but they're let up by poor direction and the scattershot, lowbrow humor of a stunted script."[6] Metacritic awarded the film an average score of 30 out of 100 based on 32 reviews.[7]

References

  1. ^ Fritz, Ben (June 24, 2010). "Movie Projector: 'Toy Story' to rule over solid 'Grown Ups,' struggling 'Knight and Day'". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Grown Ups (2010) - Box Office Mojo
  3. ^ Tatiana Siegel (2009-02-10). "Columbia pic gets Sandler and friends". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  4. ^ Shanahan, Mark (2009-05-18). "Adam Sandler et al. get to work on "Grown Ups"". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  5. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (July 5, 2010). "Rupert Gregson-Williams scores Grown Ups". ScoringSessions.com. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
  6. ^ "Grown Ups Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
  7. ^ "Grown Ups Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
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