50 First Dates

                50 First Dates was realeased in 2004; directed by peter Segal. Light-hearted, humorous plot lines, and true love surmounting obstacles are just a few characteristics of a romantic-comedy. Romantic comedies are a sub-genre of comedy films. The romantic comedy, 50 First Dates, stars Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, and Sean Astin.
In this film, Sandler plays Henry Roth, a womanizing veterinarian who cares for animals in an aquatic park with the help of his friend Ula(Schneider). Barrymore plays Lucy Whitmore who has a memory impairment similar to Alzheimers disease and Anterograde amnesia.

                The movie begins with a review of Henry’s past, uncommited relationships. Then one morning, he met Lucy at a local café. They instantly had sparks and agreed to meet for breakfast the next day, but to Henry’s dismay, Lucy has no recollection of meeting him. The café manager, Sue, over hears what is going on and pulls Henry aside. She explaind to him that Lucy had been in a car accident a year earlier and suffers from Goldfield Syndrome, in which her memory is like a white board wiped clean every night. She believes everyday is her father’s birthday, as it was the day of the accident. Lucy’s father, Marlin and brother, Doug (Astin), re-enact everything from the day of the accident.

                Henry, realizing that he is falling in love with Lucy, drops his womanizing ways and schemes up new ways to ‘meet’ her every day, in hopes that one day she will remember him. Eventually Henry convinces Marlin that it would be easier to explain the situation to Lucy everyday instead of hiding it from her, so they start to leave home videos around for her to watch every morning. These videos explained her situation and her relationship with Henry. Lucy also kept notes to her self in a journal and eventually returns the feelings towards Henry and accepting his marriage proposal. One day, Lucy finds out that Henry canceled his sailing research expedition in order to be with her. She didn’t want to hold him back so she destroyed everything that reminded her of him and put herself into a hospital.

                Henry, now Lucyless, prepares for his voyage, but before he leaves, Marlin gives him a CD that Lucy use to give to her dad for his fishing trips because it reminded him of his deceased wife and she would sing this music on days that she was with Henry. Henry then realized that the CD was a hint that Lucy does remember him, so he rushes back to the hospital to see her and she tells him that she does not know who he is but has been dreaming about him and remembers his face.

                I will not give away the ending to the movie, but throughout the whole film Sandler constantly uses humor in his ways of ‘meeting’ Lucy everyday and in their relationship. Lucy doesn’t always reciprocate the humor, but that’s part of what makes the scenes comical. I feel this movie fit it’s genre very well. It followed the whol love story over-coming obstacles along the way, all along displaying humor for all. I love all of Adam Sandler’s movies, as I believe he is a great actor. He plays his roles so well with his different voices and actions. This movie is comparable to other romantic comedies like The Ugly Truth, 27 Dresses, The Bounty Hunter, and How To Lose A Guys In 10 Days. All of these movies have a popular cast and were successful. For the most part, they all followed the same story line, but have very different ways of broadcasting a plot. If you are interested in watching the trailer to this movie you can visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErjP5xMTc8I