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37-487: Dirty Grandpa is a 2016 American comedy film about a lawyer who drives his grandfather to Florida during spring break. The film was directed by Dan Mazer and written by John Phillips. It stars Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in the leading roles, with Aubrey Plaza , Zoey Deutch , Julianne Hough and Dermot Mulroney in supporting roles. It was filmed on location in Atlanta from January 19 to May 9, 2015. The film

74-723: A camp sensibility lay behind the successful Carry On films , while in America subversive independent film-maker John Waters made camp films for college audiences with his drag queen friends that eventually found a mainstream audience. The success of the American television show Saturday Night Live drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including Wayne's World , Mean Girls , Ghostbusters and Animal House . Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences. While comedic films are among

111-533: A making-of, a gag reel, and three featurettes. It was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on June 12, 2018. Dirty Grandpa grossed $ 35.6 million in the United States and Canada and $ 69.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 105.1 million, against a production budget of $ 11.5 million. The film was released in North America on January 22, 2016, alongside The 5th Wave and The Boy , and

148-469: A motorcycle and wakes up the next day on the beach. During an awkward FaceTime session with Meredith and his family, a toddler grabs the fanny pack and takes it off; the boy's father calls the police who promptly arrest Jason. Dick bails him out, and Jason attempts to leave Dick with his old Army friend Stinky in a nursing home . But they learn he is dying, Dick persuades Jason to stay in Daytona until he

185-600: A separate genre, but rather, provides a better understanding of the film. Black List (survey) Of the more than 1,000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, at least 440 have been produced as theatrical films, including Argo , American Hustle , Juno , The King's Speech , Slumdog Millionaire , Spotlight , The Revenant , The Descendants , and Hell or High Water . The produced films have together grossed over $ 30 billion, and been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards , winning 50 and 40 respectively. As of

222-417: A shower because it's just so revolting. Somewhere in hell there is a multiplex playing this on a double bill with Movie 43 and Entourage ." He would later go on to brand it his least favorite film of 2016. Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com said: "The actor Bela Lugosi appeared in some landmark, perhaps even great, films at the beginning of his Hollywood career in the 1930s. ... Lugosi's final film

259-562: Is a film genre that emphasizes humor . These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending , with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre . Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies , which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music

296-475: Is able to sleep with Lenore. They enter into a muscle flexing contest with Cody and Brah; but Jason quits out of fear of being photographed. Dick alters a T-shirt cannon to fire a beer at Cody and Brah, hospitalizing them. After Dick reveals to Jason that he was a Green Beret , they go to a nightclub with the girls. Dick gets into a fight with some men after they bully Bradley for his homosexuality . The next day, Jason bonds with Shadia and she tells him that she

333-451: Is going to live on a ship for a year. That night, the group does karaoke with the men from the night before. After singing a duet, Jason realizes he has feelings for Shadia and plans on telling her the truth, but before he can, Cody does an online search using information he saw on Dick's (still valid) driver's license, and tells Shadia that Jason is already engaged. Jason then gets caught with drugs which were planted by Cody and Brah, and

370-490: Is marrying his controlling fiancée Meredith in one week, but despite his apprehension agrees to take his grandfather. At a roadside diner they meet Jason's old photography classmate, Shadia, along with her friends Lenore and Bradley. After learning that Lenore wants to have sex with a college professor, Dick tells them that he is a university professor and that Jason is a photographer for Time . They initially go their separate ways, but Dick convinces Jason that they should meet

407-463: Is subjective, "It can be definitively stated that Dirty Grandpa is utterly unfunny." Scheck was especially critical of the uneven tone of the film, and says it "doesn't even have the courage of its anarchic convictions, frequently abandoning its tasteless humor to indulge in sentimental scenes". Nick Schager of Variety wrote: "This contemptible fiasco is not only comfortable courting laughs through ugly mockery of minorities, but also doesn't even have

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444-580: Is the comedy equivalent of torture porn ... In fact, in the dizzying moments after being bludgeoned by this miserable specimen, I was convinced it's among the worst movies ever made." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film zero stars, and wrote: "If Dirty Grandpa isn't the worst movie of 2016, I have some serious cinematic torture in my near future." Mark Kermode , on his BBC Radio 5 Live show, said, "after Dirty Grandpa I did feel genuinely unclean. I wanted to go and have

481-707: Is thrown into jail again. The next day, Dick bails him out and tells Jason that his real reason for the trip was to convince Jason not to go through with the wedding. A disgusted and furious Jason leaves Dick and drives back home. During his wedding rehearsal, Dick hacks into the computer system, revealing embarrassing photos of Jason. Jason says that he cannot marry Meredith, who reveals that she had an affair with his cousin, though Jason does not hear this information due to poor acoustics; his cousin instead quickly telling him that Meredith has told him to do what he wants to do. Jason, Dick, and Pam, with David (Dick's son and Jason's father), use Pam's ice cream truck to catch up with

518-435: The 92nd Academy Awards , four of the last 10 Academy Awards for Best Picture went to scripts featured on a previous Black List, as well as 12 of the last 20 screenwriting Oscars ( Original and Adapted Screenplays ). Additionally, writers whose scripts are listed often find that they are more readily hired for other jobs, even if their listed screenplays still have not been produced, such as Jim Rash and Nat Faxon , two of

555-486: The 2011 edition of the Black List , an annual listing of well received but unproduced scripts in circulation. Prior to De Niro's casting, Jeff Bridges and Michael Douglas were considered for the starring role. De Niro's casting along with that of Zac Efron was confirmed September 2014. Zoey Deutch joined as the female lead, followed that January by the casting of Adam Pally and Aubrey Plaza . Plaza said that she

592-585: The Great ; Bubbles ; Blond Ambition ; Ruin ; Frat Boy Genius ; Move On ; Headhunter ; Cauliflower ; Pure ; and Bad Boy . On January 27, 2019, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival , it was announced that the LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD had partnered with The Black List to create The GLAAD List, a new curated list of the most promising unmade LGBT-inclusive scripts in Hollywood. The Black List tallies

629-460: The bus that Shadia is on as she is leaving. Jason and Shadia kiss, and he gets on the bus with her, while David and Dick, previously estranged, reconnect. Dick goes to his house in Boca Raton and finds Lenore there waiting for him, and they have sex. Dick and Lenore get married and have a baby boy named Richard Jr., and Jason and Shadia are named the godparents. The film's script was featured in

666-451: The careless fumbling of a classic talent that once brought pleasure to millions." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 21 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Dirty Grandpa received negative reviews for its gross-out and shock humor . Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter said that even though humor

703-484: The courage of its own crass-as-I-wannabe convictions." Mike Ryan of Uproxx said: " Dirty Grandpa is the worst movie I've ever seen in a movie theater. Burn it." He later also picked it as the worst film he had both reviewed and seen. Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood said: " Dirty Grandpa , is not just the worst movie [De Niro] has ever been in, but it may be the worst movie anyone has ever been in." Glenn McDonald of Indy Week said: "The awful, ugly Dirty Grandpa

740-532: The film 2 out of 4 and wrote: "It's the direction, not the script, that really kills the picture, as Mazer limps along from the chugging contest to the half-naked conga line to the car chase without ever raising the laughs he needs from the comic set pieces or the tension he needs from the dramatic developments." Taylor says the film is not sweet enough, or raunchy enough, and "seems unlikely to satisfy any audience" and concludes that De Niro's fans will be left pleading for better. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave

777-619: The film 2 out of 5, and said it offered "Some laughs – and some unintentional eeeuuuwwws." Bradshaw wrote: "This grossout comedy takes De Niro fans into a new emotional phase that I can only call 'post-despair'. We are past being astonished and horrified. ... We are just numbly resigned to the great man continuing to do things like this". At the 37th Golden Raspberry Awards , it received five nominations, for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (De Niro), Worst Supporting Actress ( Julianne Hough and Aubrey Plaza ) and Worst Screenplay, but did not win in any category. Comedy film The comedy film

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814-482: The film a C− grade, calling it "tired" and criticizing the writing and direction. However, Hassenger was positive about Plaza's performance, calling her the funniest part of the film and saying that "she and De Niro appear ready to run away together into a better movie". He concluded that "There's a certain perverse brilliance, however accidental, to a movie that creates a longing for a foulmouthed Aubrey Plaza/Robert De Niro romcom." Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail gave

851-494: The film ended on February 13, 2015, in Hampton , Georgia. After filming officially ended, it was again scheduled to resume from April 27 to May 5, with the cast and crew filming spring break scenes on Tybee Island , Georgia. On April 27, filming resumed, with Efron preparing for his scenes. Production officially ended on May 9, 2015. On October 29, 2015, Lionsgate released the film's first poster and trailer . The first poster

888-515: The film industry due to their popularity. In The Screenwriters Taxonomy (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story, and therefore, the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, his taxonomy argues that comedy is a type of film that contains at least a dozen different sub-types. A number of hybrid genres have emerged, such as action comedy and romantic comedy . The first comedy film

925-470: The girls at Daytona Beach as Dick wants to have sex with Lenore. The two go to a golf course, where Dick flirts with two women much to Jason's annoyance. At Daytona, they meet up with the girls and their friends, Cody and Brah, with whom they compete in beer chugging. Dick secretly slips Xanax into Jason's beer. That night, a drunk Jason, wearing nothing but a hornet fanny pack, parties and accidentally smokes crack cocaine from drug dealer Pam. He steals

962-754: The most popular with audiences at the box office, there is an 'historical bias against a close and serious consideration of comedy' when it comes to critical reception and conferring of awards, such as at the Academy Awards . Film writer Cailian Savage observes "Comedies have won Oscars, although they’ve usually been comedy-dramas, involved very depressing scenes, or appealed to stone-hearted drama lovers in some other way, such as Shakespeare in Love ." According to Williams' taxonomy , all film descriptions should contain their type (comedy or drama) combined with one (or more) sub-genres. This combination does not create

999-512: The use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and The Graduate . In America, the sexual revolution drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Fanny Hill . In Britain,

1036-439: The writers of the screenplay for The Descendants , who had an earlier screenplay make the list. Slate columnist David Haglund has written that the list's reputation as a champion for "beloved but challenging" works has been overstated, since "these are screenplays that are already making the Hollywood rounds. And while, as a rule, they have not yet been produced, many of them are already in production." The first Black List

1073-414: Was L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer Louis Lumière . Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the silent film era (1895–1927) were Charlie Chaplin , Harold Lloyd , and Buster Keaton , though they were able to make the transition into “ talkies ” after the 1920s. Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed

1110-458: Was 1959's ' Plan 9 From Outer Space , ' frequently cited as the worst film ever made. The cinematic landmarks of De Niro's career include films such as [Francis Ford] Coppola 's The Godfather, Part II [ sic ] and Scorsese 's Raging Bull . He has been featured in a good number of very bad films in the years since. But this? This might just be his own ' Plan 9 . ' " Jesse Hassenger of The A.V. Club gave

1147-623: Was a nod to his heritage as an African American man, and also as a reference to the writers who were barred during the McCarthy era as part of the Hollywood blacklist . The screenplays to top The Black List , from 2005 to 2023 respectively, are: Things We Lost in the Fire ; The Brigands of Rattleborge ; Recount ; The Beaver ; The Muppet Man ; College Republicans ; The Imitation Game ; Draft Day ; Holland, Michigan ; Catherine

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1184-438: Was a parody of the poster for Mike Nichols ' 1967 film The Graduate . The film was initially set for a Christmas 2015 release, but was pushed to an August 12, 2016, date. It was then brought up to February 26, 2016, before finally being moved to January 22, 2016. Dirty Grandpa received a DVD and Blu-ray release on May 17, 2016. The Blu-ray edition featured an unrated version of the film, including an audio commentary ,

1221-457: Was compiled in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, at the time working as a development executive for Leonardo DiCaprio 's production company, Appian Way Productions . He emailed about 75 fellow development executives and asked them to name the ten best unproduced screenplays they read that year. To thank them for participating, he compiled the list and sent it to the respondents. The name The Black List

1258-520: Was inspired by the role because it was different from the characters she normally played, and was also inspired by the fact that the role let her engage in physical comedy. Principal photography began in Atlanta , Georgia on January 5, 2015. On February 4, filming took place in McDonough . On February 9–10, filming took place at The Grand Atrium at 200 Peachtree in Atlanta. Preliminary shooting of

1295-417: Was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue . Comedy, compared with other film genres , places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to

1332-436: Was projected to gross $ 10–13 million from 2,912 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $ 4.3 million on its first day and went on to debut to $ 11.1 million, finishing 6th at the box office. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 10% based on 137 reviews and an average rating of 3.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Like a Werther's Original dropped down a sewer drain, Dirty Grandpa represents

1369-495: Was theatrically released on January 22, 2016, by Lionsgate . It grossed $ 105 million worldwide, and received negative reviews by critics, several of whom called it the worst film they had ever seen . Jason Kelly is a corporate lawyer in Atlanta who works for his father's law firm . When Jason's grandmother dies, his U.S. Army veteran grandfather, Lt. Colonel Richard "Dick" Kelly, asks him to drive him to Boca Raton, Florida , due to his driver’s license being suspended. Jason

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