One day, a police officer writes Lucy a ticket for her expired plates. Henry begins concocting ways to run into Lucy on the following days, but eventually Marlin and Doug figure this out due to Lucy singing The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" on the days when she meets Henry. He follows her home to apologize, where Marlin and Doug instruct him to leave her alone. Eventually she does, but it ends poorly when he unintentionally hurts her feelings. To spare Lucy the heartbreak of reliving the accident every day, Marlin and Doug, Lucy's lisping steroid-addicted brother, re-enact Marlin's birthday by following a script, including putting out the Sunday newspaper, refilling Lucy's shampoo bottles, re-watching the same Minnesota Vikings game, and re-watching the movie The Sixth Sense.ĭespite Sue's warning, Henry invites Lucy to have breakfast with him.
As such, she wakes up every morning thinking it is Sunday, October 13, of last year. The restaurant owner Sue explains to Henry that the year before, Lucy and her father Marlin had a serious car accident on his birthday that left her with anterograde amnesia, which inhibits her ability to form new memories. However, when Henry goes back to the café the following day, Lucy does not have any recollection of ever meeting him. Lucy and he hit it off instantly and she asks him to meet her again tomorrow morning. Believing her to be a local, he avoids introducing himself, but the next day he comes back. One day, at Hukilau Café, he meets a young woman named Lucy Whitmore. He has a reputation of womanizing female tourists and does not display any interest in committing to a serious relationship. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The 2014 Malayalam film Ormayundo Ee Mukham is inspired by 50 First Dates, as are the 2007 Telugu film, Sathyabhama, and the 2018 Japanese film "50 First Kisses" (50回目のファーストキス). The fictitious memory impairment suffered by Barrymore's character, Goldfield's Syndrome, is similar to short-term memory loss and anterograde amnesia. Sandler and Barrymore won an MTV award for Best On-Screen Team. Most of the film was shot on location in Oahu, Hawaii on the Windward side and the North Shore. The film stars Adam Sandler as a veterinarian and Drew Barrymore as an amnesiac, along with Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Lusia Strus, Blake Clark, and Dan Aykroyd. That it does this while combining projectile walrus puke and Rob Schneider in a major supporting role is an achievement not to be sniffed at.50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing.
That's two for two - maybe they should make all their movies together.įor 50 First Dates pulls off what all romantic comedies strive for but few achieve - making you care about the characters and root for them to be together, rather than despise them as moony, self-satisfied gits. Thanks to her, this is a surprisingly warm, funny and often quite touching film that recalls the sly charm of The Wedding Singer, her last pairing with Sandler. From this point on the movie is illuminated by a superhumanly adorable performance from Barrymore who thwarts the crass bum notes, ludicrous premise and even Sandler's infantile goo-gooings with a charm offensive of thermonuclear proportions. Not only does he fall instantly in love with her, but so do we. On paper, this high concept rom-com - apparently a Hawaiian-set date-movie dumbing-down of Memento - is standard-issue Sandler, complete with gross-out gags, casual misogyny, caricature supporting players and, of course, Sandler himself, whose wheedling man-child act is in danger of wearing thin these days.īut despite dire prognostications, when Sandler spots Barrymore building a teepee out of her breakfast waffles and puts his serial-shagger moves on her, well-honed as they are on the gullible tourists, something strange happens.