Grown Ups - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[lonnie]

Adam Sandler said the pool scene was ad-libbed.

[amber]

"Water Wizz", the water park from the film was also featured in Maya Rudolph's other film The Way, Way Back (2013).

[lonnie]

Adam Sandler's wife Jackie makes an appearance in the movie when the guys are playing basketball near the end. She plays Tardio's (Richie Minervini's) wife. Their two daughters are the real daughters of Adam and Jackie Sandler.

[beth]

Kevin James' character's name "Eric Lamonsoff" was also mentioned in Adam Sandler's movie Click (2006) as a the CEO who kills himself followed by David Hasselhoff's character telling Adam Sandler's now obese character that he's the new CEO.

[chad]

Adam Sandler wears a different New England area college shirt or hat in nearly every scene. The colleges that Sandler can be spotted wearing are the University of Maine (hat), University of Connecticut (hat), University of Massachusetts (t-shirt), Harvard (t-shirt) with a University of New Hampshire t-shirt, University of Rhode Island (hat), Vermont hockey, and Boston University (sweatshirt). He is also seen wearing a Whalers Hockey t-shirt.

[victoria]

The name Lamonsoff (Eric Lamonsoff) also appeared in Pixels (2015) with Josh Gad's character Ludlow Lamonsoff.

[dustin]

The lake rope swing scene was added at the last second during filming. Adam Sandler told the story of how it happened to him and it was decided to include the scene in the movie. It was then decided it would be funnier if it happened to Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James).

[nicholas]

The "flashback" basketball game was filmed at the Huntington Avenue YMCA in Boston. It was filmed on a 95-degree day in a gym with no air conditioning, and all of the extras in the stands were dressed in polyester. Adam Sandler was on-set with Dennis Dugan, and they both guided the team and the cheerleaders during the fifteen-hour shoot.

[darrell]

Maya Rudolph really was pregnant with her second child during filming of this movie. Production began in June 2009, and Rudolph gave birth in November 2009.