The Coriolis Effect makes a critical appearence in Happy Gilmore 2

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Happy Gilmore successfully takes the Coriolis effect into account on his final putt. Say what you want about the rest of the movie, but representation of a somewhat misunderstood physical phenomenon in a goofy Sandler comedy like this is incredible.

The climax of the movie takes place on a flat carosel rotating counter-clockwise with the hole in the center of the circle. Happy is on one side and his caddie (probably my fav character, played by Bad Bunny) is standing directly opposite. For movie drama reasons, they can't move and first must exchange clubs by tossing them to eachother at the same time. They first try this by throwing directly toward eachother from their non-inertial frame which results in them each getting their original club back (at this point the main villain remarks "physics is a b****"). Happy seems to understand what is going in here by now and instead suggests throwing the clubs straight upward, which works (they would actually need to throw the clubs leftward but since the straight vertical toss is what is observed from the rest frame ill give it plausable deniability), but now he needs to make the putt.

At this point I'm having serious doubts that the putt he goes for will be physically reasonable but lo and behold, he aims strongly to the left, much to the caddie's shock, and the ball travels a circular arc curving to the right from Happy's perspective and goes in and the day is saved etc...

TLDR: I have never seen plot relavent and thoughtfully done physics like this in a movie that I can recall, let alone in a throwaway comedy like Happy Gilmore 2. They don't mention Coriolis by name but I was pleasently surprised to see it in action