Product: 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) (2004)
Rating: 4.0
Saturday Night Live Meets Oliver Sachs
I expected little from this movie but it ended up being quite a sweet and funny movie. Adam Sandler plays an animal vet trying to win the heart of Drew Barrymore, a brain-damaged woman who wakes up each day forgetting the previous one. Each day Sandler's character woos Barrymore's character with surprisingly amusing stunts like pretending to be a kidnap victim so Barrymore's character will pull off to the side of the road and help him out...the jokes are vintage SNL. But the heart of the movie is the love story between Sandler's and Barrymore's characters that is reminiscent of a casefile from neuropsychologist Oliver Sachs. Sachs writes about true stories of people with severe brain damage who exhibit bizarre symptoms...such as the man who mistook his wife for a hat...which is also the title of one of his books. The supporting cast, consisting of Sandler's SNL buddy Rob Schneider as well as Barrymore's character's father and brother, are immensely amusing. Overall, the movie is certainly worth the seven or eight bucks to get into the theatre...especially if you go with friends...that way you can laugh together.