Grandma's Boy (2006) on Netflix
Evicted after his roommate wastes the rent, Alex, a video game tester, moves in with his grandmother Lilly and her friends. At Brainasium, Samantha is sent to oversee a new game.
- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.9/1093,843 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes16%
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Plot summary
Alex is a video game tester who shares an apartment with his friend Josh. When Josh spends the rent money on prostitutes, their landlord Yuri evicts them and Alex has nowhere to go. His dealer Dante is adopting a lion, and his co-worker Jeff still lives with his parents, so Alex moves in with his grandmother Lilly and her friends Bea and Grace. The household chores and the three women's habits keep him from his work at Brainasium, where he is quietly building his own game, Demonik. Samantha arrives from the corporate office to oversee Eternal Deathslayer III, and J.P., its self-proclaimed genius creator, has a crush on her. To impress his younger co-workers, Alex claims he is living with three women.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Grandma's Boy (2006)
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- In a December 2022 interview with the Stiff Socks podcast, Nick Swardson told of meeting the then-CEO of Blockbuster with Adam Sandler in the late 2010s; the executive said Grandma's Boy was one of their most stolen movies of all time, because nobody ever returned it.
- Game developer Terminal Reality was involved in the production, lending footage to promote their game Demonik; although the game was canceled before the film's release, that footage remained in the final cut.
- Released on DVD in May 2006 in both a 94-minute theatrical version and a 95-minute unrated cut, the film grossed $35 million in DVD sales in the United States, plus more for rentals and television revenue.
- The film won several honors at High Times' 2006 Stony Awards, including "Best Stoner Movie", "Best Actor in a Movie" for Allen Covert and "Best Pot Scene in a Movie".
- Grandma's Boy opened theatrically on January 6, 2006, in 2,015 venues and earned $3,009,341 in its opening weekend, ranking thirteenth at the domestic box office and second among that weekend's newcomers.
