50 first dates Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy.

They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day. Director: Peter Segal Writer: George Wing Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore and Rob Schneider Henry Roth is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. He leaves the playboy life behind after he falls for Lucy, who suffers from short-term memory loss. Since she can never remember meeting him, Henry has to romance Lucy every single day and hope that she falls for him. Written by IMDb Editors Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore. Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feel the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when Lucy fails to recognize him. This is the moment Henry discovers that Lucy actually suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember each individual day. Henry won't let this stop him and is prepared to make her fall in love with him all over again, each and every day. Written by FilmFanUk

Cast
Cast overview, first billed only: Adam Sandler ... Henry Roth

Drew Barrymore

... Lucy Whitmore

Rob Schneider

... Ula

Sean Astin

... Doug Whitmore

Lusia Strus

... Alexa

Dan Aykroyd

... Dr. Keats

Amy Hill

... Sue

Allen Covert

... Ten Second Tom

Blake Clark

... Marlin Whitmore

Maya Rudolph

... Stacy

Pomaika'i Brown

... Nick (as Nephi Pomaikai Brown)

Joe Nakashima

... Old Hawaiian Man

Peter Dante

... Security Guard

Dom Magwili

... Security Guard

Jonathan Loughran Full cast and crew

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Storyline
Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore. Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feel the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when Lucy fails to recognize him. This is the moment Henry discovers that Lucy actually suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember each individual day. Henry won't let this stop him and is prepared to make her fall in love with him all over again, each and every day. Written by FilmFanUk

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The original script set the movie in Seattle, the hometown of scriptwriter George Wing.
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Rob Schneider's character Ula was inspired by Siope Samuela Ula Lomu, a Tongan concierge at a luxury rental property at which Schneider, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are regular visitors. Lomu has the same blinded, grayed-over left eye that Schneider's Ula has, but there's not much resemblance beyond that. Says Lomu, "They aren't like some other top Hollywood people. They're really normal."
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"Jocko" was played by Sivuqaq, one of four walruses living at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, CA. The three female walruses featured in the film are named Siku, Uquq and Qiluk.
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When Henry and Lucy are first at his place they see two dolphins that Henry names after Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.
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The book Lucy reads at breakfast, "Still Life With Woodpecker - A Sort Of A Love Story" by Tom Robbins, is a love story set in Hawaii.
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The neurological condition that Lucy suffers from, Goldfield Syndrome, is entirely fictional. True anterograde amnesia affects either short-term memory, which can last minutes or seconds, or intermediate-term memory, which can last days or weeks. Falling asleep has nothing to do with the condition, and sleep actually intensifies many chemical effects which help memory.
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In an early scene a dentist and a woman in the dentist's chair are seen talking with each other. The woman playing the dentist is Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler's wife. And the woman in the chair is played by Linda Segal, director Peter Segal's wife, who actually is a dentist in real life.
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Originally entitled "50 First Kisses" but changed to avoid confusion with Drew Barrymore's vehicle Never Been Kissed.
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This movie spoils the ending of The Sixth Sense

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Actor/Producer Anthony Begonia was set to play a cameo as an ukulele player but was unavailable.
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The diner where Lucy has her breakfast every morning was originally a house that was remodeled for the movie. It is located on a macadamia nut farm on the eastern side of Oahu. The same house was used in Tears of the Sun and scenes from Jurassic Park were filmed in the open fields nearby.
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Both Henry and Doug had relationship issues with a girl named "Tracy", Henry during college and Doug in high school.
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Henry makes a video for Lucy to remind her of the events that have occurred since her accident. One of the items is "Red Sox win the World Series..." followed by "...

Just Kidding". During the year of the film's release, the Red Sox actually broke an 86-year drought and won the World Series. Drew Barrymore made the movie Fever Pitch about an avid Red Sox fan and they filmed the final scene on the Busch Stadium field while the Red Sox celebrated winning the 2004 World Series.
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The clinic that Lucy visits is called the "Callahan Institute" and Dr. Keats (Dan Aykroyd) states that it is "funded out of Sandusky, Ohio by T.B. Callahan, the automotive components tycoon". In Tommy Boy, Aykroyd plays a rival automotive components tycoon that is attempting to purchase Tom (T.B.) Callahan's company.
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50 First Dates

Theatrical poster

Directed by

Peter Segal

Produced by

Jack Giarraputo Steve Golin

Written by Starring

Nancy Juvonen George Wing Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore Rob Schneider Sean Astin Lusia Strus Blake Clark

Music by Cinematography Editing by Studio Distributed by Release date(s) Running time Country Language Budget Box office

Dan Aykroyd Teddy Castellucci Jack N. Green Jeff Gourson Happy Madison Flower Films Columbia Pictures February 13, 2004 99 minutes United States English $75 million $196,482,882

50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing. The film stars Adam Sandleras a woman-chasing veterinarian and Drew Barrymore as an amnesiac, along with Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Lusia Strus, Blake Clark, andDan Aykroyd. Most of the film was shot on location in Oahu, Hawaii on the Windward side and the North Shore. Sandler and Barrymore won an MTV award. This is the second of their two films to date as costars, the first being The Wedding Singer. The fictitious memory impairment suffered by Barrymore's character is similar to short term memory loss and Anterograde amnesia.
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1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Locations 4 Critical reception 5 Fictional medical condition 6 Soundtrack 6.1 Other songs in the film 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

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Henry Roth (Sandler), a womanizing marine-life veterinarian, spends his life in Hawaii between numerous short-term sexual conquests and caring for animals in an aquatic amusement park with his assistants Ula (Schneider) and Alexa (Strus). One morning in a caf, Henry meets Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore), a local art teacher; they hit it off and agree to meet again. However the next day when Henry returns, Lucy has no memory of him or their previous meeting, and Henry learns the explanation from the caf owner: as a result of a car accident a year earlier, Lucy suffers from a form of anterograde amnesia in which each day's events disappear from her memory overnight. Since the accident happened on the birthday of her father Marlin (Clark), she innocently believes each new day to be that specific day, and in order to shield her from the pain of repeatedly learning about the accident, Marlin and Lucy's brother Doug (Astin) re-enact the activities of that birthday every day. Falling in love with Lucy, Henry sheds his philandering ways and devises new ways to 'meet' her again every day, hoping that one day she will retain her memories, and feelings, for him. He eventually convinces Marlin that hiding the truth from Lucy is worse than explaining it to her each day, so they begin to leave video tapes for her to watch each morning, explaining her situation and her relationship with Henry. Lucy also writes notes to herself in a diary. Over time, she begins to reciprocate Henry's feelings, even accepting an evening marriage proposal. The next morning though, upon hearing that Henry canceled, after years of preparation, his plans to sail on a research expedition in order to stay with her, she convinces herself that their relationship is not a good thing for him; later on she insists that they break up, and destroys all evidence of the relationship. Now shut out of Lucy's life, Henry prepares for his trip. When he sets sail, he learns that Lucy is doing well, even singing sometimes, something that, since the accident, she would do only on her happy days with him. Later on he realizes that this could mean she remembers him somehow, so he rushes back to see her. When they meet again, Lucy explains that she still does not know who he is but she has frequently been dreaming about him, and remembers his face from those dreams, as evidenced by the many paintings and drawings of him she has produced. Taking this to be proof of their love for each other, the couple reunite. The last scene of the film is set several years later. Although she is unaware of it as she wakes up one morning in the cabin of Henry's yacht, Lucy is married to Henry and sailing with him, his dream finally fulfilled. After tearfully watching scenes of her accident and her wedding to Henry on a video tape, she climbs onto the deck of the boat to be greeted by Henry, their young daughter, and Marlin. [edit]Cast

Adam Sandler as Henry Roth, a marine veterinarian with a talent for wooing women and a

fear of commitment Drew Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore Rob Schneider as Ula, Henry's marijuana-smoking, native Hawaiian assistant. Ula is

unhappily married to an overweight native woman and has five young, athletically talented children. Sean Astin as Doug Whitmore, Lucy's older brother, a lisping, steroid-dependent

bodybuilder Blake Clark as Marlin Whitmore, Lucy's father, a professional fisherman Lusia Strus as Alexa, Henry's ambiguously gendered assistant Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Keats, a physician specializing in brain disorders Amy Hill as Sue, the Hukilau caf manager and friend of Lucy and her late mother Pomaika'i Brown as Nick, the Hakilau cafe chef. Allen Covert as Ten-Second Tom, a hospital patient with severe memory impairment Missi Pyle as Noreen, tax attorney Henry meets at a bar but then tries to fix up with Alexa Maya Rudolph as Stacy, pregnant woman at beach party

[edit]Production The film was originally titled "50 First Kisses", but this was changed to avoid confusion with Never Been Kissed, another film with Drew Barrymore.[1] [edit]Locations Most of the film was shot on location in Kaneohe, Ka wa , Wahiaw, Makapuu, a a and Waimnalo, Oahu, as well as in Kne'ohe Bay. To save money (because of the high cost of filming outside of the studio zone), some interior scenes (such as inside the Whitmore residence) were shot on sets in Los Angeles carefully decorated to look like they were in Hawaii. 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. The boat "Sea Serpent" was a 51' Formosa; The boat's real name is Viking Spirit and it is berthed in Ko Olina, on Oahu. The movie also makes reference to the film Tommy Boy by mentioning Callahan Auto (the company Chris Farley's character, Tommy, is trying to save) and the town of Sandusky, Ohio where the company is located. [edit]Critical

reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 44% based on 172 reviews, and the site's consensus states [that the] "Gross-out humor overwhelms the easy chemistry between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, who bring some energy and yucks to this tale of a girl with short-term memory loss and the guy who tries to get her to love him." [2] Critics who enjoyed the film (such as The 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.[citation needed] Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars, saying "The movie is sort of an experiment for Sandler. He reveals the warm side of his personality, and leaves behind the hostility, anger and gross-out humor... The movie doesn't have the complexity and depth of Groundhog Day... but as entertainment it's ingratiating and lovable."[3] 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.[citation needed] [edit]Fictional

medical condition

In an article in the BMJ on depictions of amnesia in film, clinical neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale writes that 50 First Dates "maintains a venerable movie tradition of portraying an amnesic syndrome that bears no relation to any known neurological or psychiatric condition".[4]However, a 2010 article in the Daily Mail newspaper claimed a similar condition afflicted a UK woman who cannot remember anything prior to 1994 as a result of two car accidents (one in 1985 and the other in 1990).[5] The article quotes Dr. Peter Nestor, a neuroscience specialist atCambridge University, who said "It is reasonably rare to have this kind of amnesia but it does exist." In 2010, researchers described a woman who developed the kind of memory impairment after she was involved in a car accident. She described that her memory was normal for events on the same day and that overnight memories for the previous day were lost. However, a neuropsychological test did reveal some improvement in recall for tasks which she had, unknowingly, performed the previous day. Though the woman claimed not to have seen 50 First Dates prior to her 2005 accident (but has watched it several times since), she stated that Drew Barrymore was her favorite actress, leading researchers to conclude that her condition might have been influenced by some knowledge of the film's plot, and its impact upon her understanding of amnesia.[6] [edit]Soundtrack

50 First Dates: Love Songs From The Original Motion Picture

Released Genre Length Label

Soundtrack album by Various Artists February 3, 2004 Ska, reggae, new wave 49:37 Maverick

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. It was a moderate commercial hit, reaching #30 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top Soundtracks chart and Top Reggae Albums chart in the United States. No. Title 1. "Hold Me Now" (Thompson
Twins)

2. "Lovesong" (The Cure)

3. "Lips Like Sugar" (Echo & the

Bunnymen)

Writer(s) Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, Joe Leeway Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Roger O'Donnell Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson John Spinks Ric Ocasek Gary Kemp Ferry

Artist Wayne Wonder 311 Seal featuring Mikey Dread Wyclef Jean featuringEve Ziggy Marley will.i.am & Fergie Elan Atias (backing vocals byGwen Stefani) UB40 Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray Dryden Mitchell of Alien Ant Farm

Length 4:12 3:28 5:00 4:13 4:26 4:24 3:55 3:55 3:01 3:21 3:36 3:36

4. "Your Love (L.O.V.E. Reggae Mix)" (The Outfield) 5. "Drive" (The Cars) 6. "True" (Spandau Ballet) 7. "Slave to Love" (Bryan Ferry)

8. "Every Breath You Take" (The Sting

Police)

9. "The Ghost in You" (The

Psychedelic Furs)

Richard Butler, Tim Butler

10. "Friday I'm in Love" (The Cure) Smith, Gallup, Thompson, Williams,Perry Bamonte 11. "Breakfast in Bed" (Dusty Nicole Kea (Nicole Springfield, Eddie Hinton, Donnie Fritts 1969/UB40 featuringChrissie Hynde, Scherzinger)
1988)

12. "I Melt With You" (Modern

English)

Robbie Grey, Gary Jason Mraz McDowell, Stephen Walker, Michael Conroy, Richard

13. "Forgetful Lucy" Total length: [edit]Other

Brown Sandler, Allen Covert,Tim Herlihy

Adam Sandler

1:51 49:37

songs in the film

The Beach Boys "Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Cure "Boys Don't Cry" The English Beat "Hands Off She's Mine" The Flaming Lips "Do You Realize??" Wyclef Jean "Baby" Israel Kamakawiwo'ole "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"/ "What a Wonderful World"

medley (Originally recorded by Judy Garland/ Louis Armstrong) The Maile Serenaders "My Sweet Sweet" The Makaha Sons of Ni'Ihau "Aloha Ka Manini" Manfred Mann "Blinded by the Light" Bob Marley & The Wailers "Could You Be Loved" and "Is This Love" Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney "Another Day" No Doubt "Underneath It All" O-Shen "Throw Away The Gun" Harve Presnell "They Call the Wind Mariah" Leon Redbone & Ringo Starr "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii" Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider "Ula's Luau Song" Snoop Dogg "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" 311 "Amber" and "Rub A Dub" Toots & the Maytals "Pressure Drop" The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O"

SYNOPSIS:
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together for the first time since The Wedding Singer in one of the funniest romantic comedies in years. Henry (Sandler) lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It's a sweet life with no strings attached...until he meets Lucy (Barrymore). He and Lucy hit it off from the get-go, but the next day she acts like she doesn't know him. Has his karma come around to kick him in the butt or what? Actually, Lucy has short-term memory loss so every night all memory of her day is erased. But a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams, and if that means having to find imaginative ways of doing it over again every day, then Henry's up for the challenge. Rob Schneider (Big Daddy) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) co-star in 50 First Dates, which will win you over every time you watch it!

Cast
Adam Sandler - Henry Roth Drew Barrymore - Lucy Whitmore Rob Schneider - Ula Sean Astin - Doug Whitmore Lusia Strus - Alexa Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Keats Amy Hill - Sue Allen Covert - Ten Second Tom Blake Clark - Marlin Whitmore Maya Rudolph - Stacy Pomaika'i Brown - Nick Joe Nakashima - Old Hawaiian Man

50 First Dates
50 First Dates is a 2004 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore about a man afraid of commitment, until he meets the girl of his dreams. But then he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him every day. Directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing.

The plot summary for 50 First Dates, taken from Wikipedia, is as follows: One morning, Henry (Sandler) meets Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore), a local art teacher, in a caf. They hit it off and agree to meet the next day, but when Henry returns, Lucy has no memory of him or their previous meeting. Pulling him aside to where Lucy can't hear them, the caf owner explains to Henry that, as a result of a car accident a year earlier, Lucy suffers from Goldfield Syndrome, a fictional form of anterograde amnesia in which each day's events disappear from her memory overnight.

but upon awakening the next morning, she had no memory for the previous day and believed that the accident had just occurred. Every morning since has been similar. She awakens with anxiety, believes it to be the day of the accident, and states that she has no memory for anything that has occurred since the accident.

The Unique Case of 50 First Dates Amnesia

Scene from 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. 50 First Dates maintains a venerable movie tradition of portraying an amnesiac syndrome that bears no relation to any known neurological or psychiatric condition (Baxendale, 2004).

Re-teaming Adam_Sandler with Drew_Barrymore, his co-star fromThe_Wedding_Singer, as well as Peter_Segal, his director onAnger_Management, Fifty First Dates finds the funnyman playing veterinarian Henry Roth. More than content with a life of one-night-stands, Henry decides to give up his noncommittal lifestyle when he meets and falls for Lucy (Barrymore). However, when he discovers that Lucy has no short term memory, Henry finds himself having to win her heart again with every new day.

The vast majority of todays romantic comedies tend to be instantly forgettable. So its perhaps a little ironic that 50 First Dates, a rom-com set around the logistical problems of short-term memory loss, turns out to be one of the few that might just stick in your head for more than the standard couple of days. In a nice piece of casting, it reunites Adam Sandler with Drew Barrymore, the pair having first made a surprisingly likable couple in the 80s-tastic chortler The Wedding Singer. Theres a charming, underplayed chemistry between the two, and it proves to be just as much of a winner this time round. The movies second success is the story itself. Henry (Sandler) is a Hawaii-based marine biologist with big commitment problems, until he bumps into Barrymores waffle-sculpting Lucy in a local diner. The pair hit it off and arrange to meet the next day, but theres a mucho problemo: as a result of a car accident suffered a year ago, she cant remember a thing from one day to the next including any lunch dates she might happen to have made. Despite the misleading title, theres more to this than simply watching Sandlers repeated first-time wooing of his newfound love, and its actually got a pretty decent plotline to carry us through. Of course its heavily-influenced by the likes of Memento and Groundhog Day, but it has a humour, charm and goal of its own to prevent it from straying into rip-off territory.

If it has any real fault, its that its not particularly funny. Sandler leaves out his trademark yelling and, though his distinctive sense of humour is still on show, its very much a mellowed down version we get to see here. Its not that thats a bad thing (its actually a bit of a relief not to have to reach for the Aspirin tablets afterwards) its just that there seems to be little else here to replace his usual noisy gross-out shtick with. It's Got: A vomiting walrus. It Needs: To include a scene where the ever-nauseating Rob Schneider is involved in some sort of horrendously painful accident.