50 First Dates
Movie poster for 50 First Dates
Directed by	Peter Segal
Produced by	Jack Giarraputo Steve Golin Nancy Juvonen
Written by	George Wing
Starring	Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore Rob Schneider Sean Astin
Music by	Teddy Castellucci
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	February 13, 2004 (U.S. release)
Running time	99 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$75,000,000 (estimated)
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50 First Dates is a 2004 romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and directed by Peter Segal.

Tagline: Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams... every friggin' day.

Plot

Henry Roth (Adam Sandler), a marine veterinarian living in Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) in a cafe and they develop a relationship. However, it soon emerges that Lucy suffers from anterograde amnesia due to a car accident she was in a year earlier with her father, rendering her incapable of forming new long-term memories. Her condition leaves her with no memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present as she cannot convert short-term memories into long-term memories as she sleeps. She believes every day to be October 13, 2002. Henry therefore must find new and imaginative ways of winning Lucy over every day, to the disapproval of her father and brother. Henry decides to remedy this using a diary and a tape reminding Lucy of events since the accident and explaining why she cannot remember these events; it eventually succeeds and the end of the film depicts Henry and Lucy as married.

Cast

• Adam Sandler as Henry Roth
• Drew Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore
• Rob Schneider as Ula
• Sean Astin as Doug Whitmore
• Lusia Strus as Alexa
• Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Keats
• Amy Hill as Sue
• Allen Covert as Ten Second Tom
• Blake Clark as Marlin Whitmore
• Maya Rudolph as Stacy

Critical and audience reception

Critical response to the movie was decidedly mixed. Those major critics who enjoyed the film (such as New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott) praised the uplifting story while lamenting the seemingly excessive and incongruous amount of crude humor and drug references.

Sandler and Barrymore won the award for Best On-Screen Team at the MTV Movie Awards. The two actors, who had previously worked together in the popular film The Wedding Singer, are said to regard 50 First Dates as one of their favorite personal efforts.

Overtaken by events

One notable coincidence of Henry's first video is when the screen says "Red Sox Win World Series" and then follows with "Just Kidding." This is a reference to the 2003 American League Championship Series, as the film was released in February 2004. Later in that year, however, the Boston Red Sox would indeed win the World Series. Coincidentally, Barrymore's next film would be Fever Pitch, which co-stars Jimmy Fallon as an obsessed Boston Red Sox fan and which takes place during the 2004 baseball season.

During the golfing scene the kids swing like Happy Gilmore, which is one of Adam Sandler's previous movies.

Dan Aykroyd's character in the film mentions that the short-term memory loss facility is sponsored by Callahan Auto of Sandusky, Ohio. Callahan Auto was the main focus in Tommy Boy, a film that starred Chris Farley and David Spade. This was most likely put in as a tribute to Farley, as Sandler was a good friend of his. Aykroyd also played a businessman in the movie who attempts a takeover of Callahan Auto.

Locations

Most of the film was shot on location in Kaneohe, Kaaawa, Wahiawa, Kualoa, Makapu'u, and Waimanalo, O'ahu, as well as in Kaneohe Bay. The walrus tank is actually in Vallejo, California's Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, and the golf course is in Los Angeles, California. Real-life sea lion trainer Michael Osborn appears in the film as himself.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack contains cover versions of songs that were originally recorded in the 1980s. This includes mostly reggae or ska covers, due to their emphasized upbeat that gives a tropical or Hawaiian feel.

Album track listing

1. Wayne Wonder — "Hold Me Now" (Originally recorded by the Thompson Twins)
2. 311 — "Lovesong" (Originally recorded by The Cure)
3. Seal featuring Mikey Dread — "Lips Like Sugar" (Originally recorded by Echo and the Bunnymen)
4. Wyclef Jean featuring Eve — "Your Love (L.O.V.E. Reggae Mix)" (Originally recorded by The Outfield)
5. Ziggy Marley — "Drive" (Originally recorded by The Cars)
6. will.i.am & Fergie — "True" (Originally recorded by Spandau Ballet)
7. Elan Atias (backing vocals by Gwen Stefani) — "Slave to Love" (Originally recorded by Bryan Ferry)
8. UB40 — "Every Breath You Take"(Originally recorded by The Police)
9. Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray — "The Ghost in You" (Originally recorded by Psychedelic Furs)
10. Dryden Mitchell — "Friday I'm in Love" (Originally recorded by The Cure)
11. Nicole Kea (Nicole Scherzinger) — "Breakfast in Bed" (Originally recorded by UB40 with Chrissie Hynde)
12. Jason Mraz — "I Melt With You" (Originally recorded by Modern English)
13. Adam Sandler — "Forgetful Lucy"

Songs within the film

1. The Maile Serenaders — "My Sweet Sweet"
2. Nicole Kea — "Breakfast in Bed" (Originally recorded by UB40)
3. The Ventures — "Hawaii Five-O"
4. Harve Presnell — "They Call the Wind Mariah"
5. Bob Marley & The Wailers — "Could You Be Loved"
6. Manfred Mann — "Blinded by the Light"
7. Toots & the Maytals — "Pressure Drop"
8. Wayne Wonder — "Hold Me Now" (Originally recorded by the Thompson Twins)
9. 311 — "Rub A Dub"
10. O-Shen — "Throw Away The Gun"
11. Elan Atias (backing vocals by Gwen Stefani) — "Slave To Love" (Originally recorded by Roxy Music)
12. Leon Redbone & Ringo Starr — "My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua Hawaii)"
13. The Flaming Lips — "Do You Realize"
14. Paul McCartney — "Another Day"
15. 311 — "Amber"
16. No Doubt — "Underneath It All"
17. Jason Mraz — "I Melt With You" (Originally recorded by Modern English)
18. The English Beat — "Hands Off She's Mine"
19. Seal (featuring Mikey Dread) — "Lips Like Sugar" (Originally recorded by Echo and the Bunnymen)
20. Dryden Mitchell — "Friday I'm in Love" (Originally recorded by The Cure)
21. The Beach Boys — "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
22. Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider — "Ula's Luau Song"
23. Wyclef Jean (featuring Eve) — "Your Love (L.O.V.E. Reggae Mix)" (Originally recorded by The Outfield)
24. Wyclef Jean — "Baby"
25. Adam Sandler — "Forgetful Lucy"
26. Ziggy Marley — "Drive" (Originally recorded by The Cars)
27. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole — "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
28. UB40 — "Every Breath You Take" (Originally recorded by Sting and The Police)
29. 311 — "Love Song" (Originally recorded by The Cure)
30. Mark McGrath (of Sugar Ray) — "Ghost In You" (Originally recorded by Psychedelic Furs)
31. Bob Marley & The Wailers — "Is This Love"
32. Will.I.Am & Fergie Ferg — "True" (Originally recorded by Spandau Ballet)
33. The Makaha Sons Of Ni'Ihau — "Aloha Ka Manini"
34. Snoop Dogg — "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace"
35. The Cure — "Boys Don't Cry"

Trivia

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• At one point, Sue, while explaining Lucy's memory problem to Henry, says that her "slate is wiped clean" every night, a possible reference to the movie Clean Slate, which has a similar premise to 50 First Dates.

• The movie is dedicated to Stanley Sandler (father of Adam Sandler).

• Missi Pyle made an appearance as one of Henry Roth's dates, the one drinking out of a large glass using two straws.

• The film's very general framework, of a person starting every day as a new beginning, is similar to that of the film Groundhog Day and Memento. There is an apparent homage to Groundhog Day in one scene where Lucy's father is sitting, frustrated and bored, flicking playing cards into a hat.

• At one point on the golf course, someone takes a "run up" golf swing (like Happy Gilmore's, also starring Adam Sandler) and Henry states "That's the stupidest lookin swing I've ever seen" as a parody of his previous film. Henry then takes his swing with disastrous results.

• The two dolphins in the marine park are referred to by Henry at one point as "Mary-Kate and Ashley", a nod to the Olsen twins.

• When eating at the diner every morning, Lucy can be seen reading Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins.

• In the video shown to Lucy towards the end of the movie a picture of Nomar Garciaparra celebrating after the 2003 ALDS is shown with the words the Red Sox won the World Series then followed by ... just kidding

• The walrus in the film is named Jacko, in real life the walrus is named Sivuqaq(see voo cok). Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, the park which Sivuqaq lives at, was previously known as Six Flags Marine World. When the park was renamed, they renamed Sivuqaq to Jacko, paying homage to the film.

• In The Sims 2: Nightlife, one of the lifetime wants of the Pleasure aspiration sim is to go on 50 first dates.

See also

• Novo

External links

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• Could Drew Barrymore's memory loss in 50 First Dates really happen? from The Register

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