Though the film had its moments, Grandma's Boy felt like it wasn’t so much a movie as it was an experiment to see how Adam Sandler’s friends could do without him as an anchor.
The 36-year-old video game tester Alex (Allen Covert) has been evicted from his apartment and has no place to stay. After hearing that one of his Grandma’s roommates just died, Alex decides to move in with her (Doris Roberts) and her two roommates (Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight). At first, moving in with the three women sounded like a great idea because all Grandmas spoil their grandkids. Later, Alex finds that the three women expect some housework to be done in return. The early morning chores start to take their toll on Alex and start interfering with his job.
Prodigy video game developer J.P. (Joel Moore) is developing a new game for Alex’s firm that is sure to be a hit, but is well behind production schedule. Their boss, Mr. Cheezle (Kevin Nealon), decides to bring in production schedule expert Samantha (Linda Cardellini) to put the game back on track. Between developing an interest in Samantha, getting high and being preoccupied by his three new roommates, Alex is finding it hard to focus.
For starters, this film was produced by Adam Sandler and stars all of his deadbeat friends (Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran), from many of his previous movies. The obvious cameos showed up during the film (David Spade, Rob Schneider) and further confirmed that this movie was just Sandler throwing a bone to his buddies.
I can see Adam Sandler sitting in a Lazyboy on the phone with some studio exec saying “No, no I’m not going to be in the movie… Sure I can afford it, I have that movie Click coming out this summer.”
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1 - Mike
What's the name of that song when the Grandma is playing JP for rights to Demonic. Any help?