Grandma's Boy
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Unspeakably bad comedy about a video-game tester (Allen Covert) who moves in with his grandmother (Doris Roberts) and her geriatric roommates (Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight) after he's evicted for nonpayment of rent, his growing attraction to the efficiency expert at the office (Linda Cardellini), and his interaction with a coterie of goofy friends (including Nick Swardson). Nonstop gross-out humor and rough and crude language, sexual situations and innuendo, upper female and rear male nudity, heavy drug use, hedonistic worldview. O -- morally offensive. (R) 2005
Let the classy presence of Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight fool you. "Grandma's Boy" (Fox) is loathsome junk.
The so-called comedy concerns video-game tester Alex (Allen Covert), who moves in with his grandmother, Lilly (Roberts), and her geriatric roommates, Grace (Jones) and Bea (Knight), after he's evicted for nonpayment of rent.
Before long, he finds himself attracted to the pretty office efficiency expert (Linda Cardellini), all the while acting the buffoon with his coterie of goofy friends (including Nick Swardson), each more asinine than the other.
Director Nicholaus Goossen's mess of a movie is sophomoric, unfunny, and hits new lows in puerile vulgarity.
This is definitely one to skip.
The film contains nonstop gross-out humor and rough and crude language, sexual situations and innuendo, upper female and rear male nudity, heavy drug use, and a hedonistic worldview. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is O -- morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.