40 Fun Facts About Grown Ups

In which sport do Lenny Feder and his friends win a 1978 junior high championship in Grown Ups?

Basketball brings the five together in 1978 and again thirty years on, when a rival who never accepted the result demands a rematch by the lake.

Over which holiday weekend do the five friends and their families share a lake house in Grown Ups?

Fourth of July fireworks close the film, watched by all five families after a weekend that began with their old coach's funeral.

Which color does a pool chemical turn urine in Grown Ups, as Donna Lamonsoff warns her father?

Blue water gives the game away after Eric Lamonsoff ignores his daughter's warning about the chemical, one of several ways the families cause chaos at the park.

Which make of sports car did Adam Sandler buy his four Grown Ups co-stars as a thank-you gift?

Maserati sports cars went to all four co-stars after Grown Ups became Sandler's biggest worldwide hit at the box office.

Which Oscar-nominated star of Frida plays Roxanne, the wife of Lenny Feder, in Grown Ups?

Salma Hayek plays Roxanne, who gives up a work trip abroad when she sees what the weekend is doing for her children.

Which of the five lead actors in Grown Ups is the only one who did not return for Grown Ups 2?

Rob Schneider skipped Grown Ups 2, so only four of the old teammates feature when Lenny moves his family back to their hometown.

Which actor plays Wiley, who crashes into a shed on the zipline and ends Grown Ups in a full-body cast?

Steve Buscemi plays Wiley, a friend of Lenny's old rival Dickie Bailey. He had already worked with Adam Sandler on Airheads, The Wedding Singer and Big Daddy.

In the roulette game the friends play in Grown Ups, which object do they launch into the air?

An arrow is fired straight up in the game, and the first round ends when it comes down on Rob Hilliard, who then snaps at his wife's offer of holistic healing.

Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and David Spade of Grown Ups all joined which TV show in the 1990–91 season?

Saturday Night Live is where the stars met, and Norm Macdonald, who has a cameo in Grown Ups, is a fellow veteran of the sketch show.

How does the rematch against Dickie Bailey's team end for Lenny Feder in Grown Ups?

He misses on purpose: Lenny later tells his wife he let Dickie's family win so that his own children would learn what losing feels like.

What is the nickname of Robert Ferdinando, the coach whose death reunites the five friends in Grown Ups?

Buzzer is the coach who took the boys to a lake house to celebrate their 1978 title, and the five scatter his ashes together three decades later.

To which city are Lenny Feder's family due to fly for his wife Roxanne's fashion show in Grown Ups?

Milan is the trip Roxanne agrees to scrap, though Lenny later admits he had cancelled the flight before the family even left home.

Which Hollywood job has made Lenny Feder, a father of three spoiled children, wealthy in Grown Ups?

Talent agent Lenny is the group's big success, and he secretly cancels a family trip so that his children can have a normal vacation for once.

Eric Lamonsoff claims to co-own a company making what in Grown Ups, before admitting he was laid off?

Lawn furniture is Eric's cover story: he had lost his job and kept up the act all weekend to avoid humiliation, until Lenny and Kurt offer to help him start a business.

In Grown Ups, what does Dickie Bailey insist should have ruled out Lenny Feder's 1978 winner?

His foot was out of bounds, Dickie says, and the grudge over that 1978 title is what drives him to demand a rematch.

Which real New England slide park, later seen in The Way, Way Back, features in Grown Ups?

Water Wizz, a family-owned park open since 1982, played a larger part in The Way, Way Back three years after Grown Ups.

What is the name of Eric and Sally Lamonsoff's four-year-old son, who is still breastfed, in Grown Ups?

Bean is weaned at last during the trip to the slides, when his father Eric teaches him to drink cow's milk.

Which secret does Rob Hilliard admit in Grown Ups, though all his friends already know it?

He wears a toupee, as his friends had long worked out. The confession comes in a round of truth-telling that also exposes Eric's lost job.

Which child in Grown Ups delivers the line that won the 2011 MTV Movie Award for Best Line from a Movie?

Becky Feder is Lenny's five-year-old daughter and youngest child, played by Alexys Nycole Sanchez, and her line about a sweet treat gave the film an MTV Movie Award win.

Which director of Big Daddy and You Don't Mess with the Zohan made Grown Ups and appears in it as a referee?

Dennis Dugan directed Grown Ups, one of his many films with Adam Sandler, and he came back to direct Grown Ups 2 as well.

In which US state was Grown Ups filmed, with Chebacco Lake standing in for the fictional Amoskeag Lake?

Massachusetts hosted the shoot, which was based in Essex County in 2009. Adam Sandler himself grew up just over the border in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Woodman's, the real restaurant where Dickie Bailey works in Grown Ups, is said to have invented which dish?

Fried clams were born at Woodman's in 1916, by its own account, when Chubby Woodman dropped clams into the oil he used for potato chips.

Grown Ups overtook which Adam Sandler comedy, an Oscar nominee for its makeup, as his biggest worldwide hit?

Click, the 2006 comedy about a universal remote control, had been Sandler's top earner worldwide until Grown Ups passed it four years later.

Which production company, founded by Adam Sandler in 1999, made Grown Ups alongside Relativity Media?

Happy Madison takes its name from two of Sandler's 1990s comedies, and Grown Ups became the highest-grossing film it had produced.

Adam Sandler wrote Grown Ups with which co-writer of the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt?

Fred Wolf shares the screenplay credit with Sandler and returned for Grown Ups 2, when Sandler's regular writing partner Tim Herlihy joined them.

Which Schubert piece does Rob Hilliard sing in Grown Ups, a performance left off the soundtrack album?

Ave Maria is performed on screen by the hippie of the group, while the album itself is rock from acts such as Journey, Cheap Trick and The Kinks.

Which future Disney Channel star of Jessie and Descendants plays Lenny Feder's son Keithie in Grown Ups?

Cameron Boyce played the spoiled Keithie as a child actor and returned for Grown Ups 2, by which time he was starring in Jessie.

China Anne McClain, Kurt McKenzie's daughter in Grown Ups, later led which Disney Channel series?

She won the lead role of Chyna Parks in 2011 and sang the theme song, Exceptional, herself. A.N.T. Farm ran on Disney Channel until 2014.

Which comedian plays Dickie Bailey, the childhood rival who demands a rematch in Grown Ups?

Colin Quinn plays Dickie, now a chef at a seafood restaurant, and he returned to the role in Grown Ups 2.

Which Bridesmaids star plays Deanne McKenzie, the pregnant wife of Kurt, in Grown Ups?

Maya Rudolph plays Deanne, who is expecting her third child during the reunion, and she went on to appear in Grown Ups 2 as well.

Which A History of Violence actress plays Sally Lamonsoff, the wife of Eric, in Grown Ups?

Maria Bello plays Sally, and years later she said she hoped a third film would happen because the cast was such fun to work with.

What is Kurt McKenzie's occupation in Grown Ups, one he says his wife Deanne underappreciates?

Stay-at-home dad Kurt looks after two children with a third on the way, and he tells Deanne how little she values what he does.

David Spade plays which of the five friends in Grown Ups, the womanizing slacker of the group?

Marcus Higgins is the ladies' man of the five, and during the weekend he admits to feeling insecure compared with his friends.

Lenny Feder is thrilled to find the children playing with which old-fashioned toy in Grown Ups?

Cup-and-string phones are the sign the weekend is working, and seeing the children with them persuades Roxanne to stay at the lake.

Which Pixar film kept Grown Ups in second place at the US box office on its opening weekend?

Toy Story 3 took $59.3 million in its second weekend, while Grown Ups opened with $40.5 million, well ahead of Knight and Day.

Grown Ups 2 holds which distinction in the film career of Adam Sandler, the star of Grown Ups?

His first sequel arrived in 2013, when Sandler returned as Lenny Feder and moved the character's family back to his hometown.

Which Twilight Saga: Eclipse actor beat a Grown Ups star to the Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor?

Jackson Rathbone took the Razzie for two films at once, Eclipse and The Last Airbender, which was the ceremony's big winner with five awards.

Which sportscaster, a regular in Adam Sandler films, plays Norby the Ride Guy in Grown Ups?

Dan Patrick, who spent 18 years at ESPN, has turned up in many Sandler comedies, and here he works one of the rides.

Which Bad News Bears actress plays Gloria, the much older wife of Rob Hilliard, in Grown Ups?

Joyce Van Patten plays Gloria, the fourth wife of the group's hippie, and it is Gloria who helps the quarrelling couples make peace.

Which relative of Kurt McKenzie, known as Mama Ronzoni, lives with his family in Grown Ups?

His mother-in-law is played by Ebony Jo-Ann, and she is already living with the couple as they await another baby.