Movie Review-Happy Gilmore

             The main character of this movie is a character named Happy Gilmore. The movie begins with Happy describing his past life and how he is into hockey. He also talks about how his father is also obsessed with hockey, how his mother left them because of that, and how his father died by getting hit in the head with a puck. Happy developed a short fuse because of this, which is showed by him hitting a kid on the head with a hammer and the fact that he set a record in jr. hockey for trying to stab someone with a skate. Shooter McGavine is the bad guy in the movie. He is a well-known pro golfer who is the leading pro money winner when Happy joins the tour. He gets jealous of him and tries to get him kicked off the tour by setting him up. Chubs is Happy's mentor in the movie. He discovers Happy's power at a driving range and enters him in the Waterbury Open. He shows up later in the movie to teach Happy to putt so that he can win his grandmother's house back. Happy's grandmot!
             her took in Happy when his father died and raised him. She is the reason he joined the tour because she has not paid her taxes in 10 years and lost her house and belongings. Virginia Bennett is the Public Relations person for the tour and ends up helping Happy behave while he is on the tour. She also becomes his girlfriend in the middle of the movie.
             The most obvious psychological issue that arises is aggression in sports. His aggression is shown throughout the movie and is more blatant when Happy is losing. At the start of the movie Happy is seen trying out for amateur hockey. The first scene has him pounding some guy into the glass and elbowing him down to the ice. When he doesn't make the team the coach taunts him. That sets him off and Happy beats up the coach and a few of the players on the team. Happy learns that he has a powerful drive and gets discovered by Chubs. At the start of the tournament you can see that Happy does not change his...

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