50 First Dates

Name: 50 First Dates

Directed by: Peter Segal

Written by: George Wing

Produced by: Jack Giarraputo Steve Golin Nancy Juvonen

Executive Producers: Michael Ewing Daniel Lupi Jay Roach

Co-Producers: Scott Bankston Larry Kennar

Associate Producer: Kevin Grady

Production Executive: Tom McNulty

Director of Photography: Jack Green

Production Designer: Alan Au

Edited by: Jeff Gourson

Music by: Teddy Castellucci

Art Director: Domenic Silvestri

Set Decorator: Robert Greenfield

Costume Designer: Ellen Lutter

Casting by: Roger Mussenden

Studio: Pixar Animation Studios

Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures Happy Madison Productions Flower Films Anonymous Content Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Length: 99 minutes, 55 seconds

Budget: $75 million

Box office: $196.3 million

Pixar Movie Number: 1011

50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing. 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. 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 for Best On-Screen Team. The fictitious memory impairment suffered by Barrymore's character, Goldfield's Syndrome, is similar to short-term memory loss and anterograde amnesia. 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).

Plot
Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He has a reputation of womanizing female tourists and does not display any interest in committing to a serious relationship. One day, at Hukilau Café, he meets a young woman named Lucy Whitmore. Believing her to be a local, he avoids introducing himself, but the next day he comes back. Lucy and he hit it off instantly and she asks him to meet her again tomorrow morning.

However, when Henry goes back to the café the following day, Lucy does not have any recollection of ever meeting him. 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. As such, she wakes up every morning thinking it is Sunday, October 13, of last year.

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.

Despite Sue's warning, Henry invites Lucy to have breakfast with him. Eventually she does, but it ends poorly when he unintentionally hurts her feelings. He follows her home to apologize, where Marlin and Doug instruct him to leave her alone. 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.

One day, a police officer writes Lucy a ticket for her expired plates. She attempts to argue that they are not yet expired, but realizes it's not October 13 as she thought. Lucy rushes home, and Marlin and Doug are forced to admit their ruse when she confronts them; a procedure they always follow whenever something goes wrong with their efforts to re-enact Marlin's birthday.

Henry comes up with an idea to make a video explaining to Lucy her accident and their relationship. Although she is upset upon learning of her accident and memory loss, Henry believes that she is more upset about realizing her life is a lie every day. Because of this, Henry, Marlin and Doug show Lucy the tape every morning and help her spend her days by picking up where the tape says she left off. She spends more time with Henry and goes to see some of her old friends.

Eventually, however, Lucy decides to erase Henry completely from her life after learning of his decision not to take a year-long sailing trip to Bristol Bay to study walruses, something he has been planning for the past 10 years, in favor of spending that year making her fall in love with him every day. Henry reluctantly helps Lucy destroy her journal entries of their relationship.

A few weeks later, Henry is preparing to leave for his trip. Before he departs, Marlin tells him that Lucy is now living at the brain institute where she was first diagnosed and teaching an art class there. He also tells him that she sings. As he sails away, Henry becomes emotional and remembers that Marlin once told him that Lucy only sings after she meets him. Concluding that she remembers him, he returns home, rushes to the brain institute and asks her if she knows who he is. She says she doesn't, but shows him the pictures she has painted of him, saying she dreams about him every night.

Some time later, Lucy wakes up and plays a video tape marked "Good Morning Lucy." It again informs her of her accident, but ends with her and Henry’s wedding. On the tape, Henry says to put a jacket on and come have breakfast when she is ready. Lucy then sees that she is on Henry's boat, which finally made it to Alaska. She goes up on deck and meets Marlin, Henry and their daughter, Nicole.

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, Henry's love interest with short-term memory loss

Rob Schneider as Ula, Henry's marijuana-smoking, native Hawaiian assistant and best friend; he 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 widowed father, a professional fisherman

Lusia Strus as Alexa, Henry's ambiguously gendered assistant

Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Joseph Keats, a physician specializing in brain disorders

Amy Hill as Sue, the Hukilau café manager and friend of Lucy and her late mother

Pomaika'i Brown as Nick, the Hukilau café chef.

Allen Covert as Ten-Second Tom, a hospital patient with severe memory impairment (reprised as 220 Tom in Blended)

Missi Pyle as Noreen, a tax attorney Henry meets at a bar but then tries to fix up with Alexa

Maya Rudolph as Stacy, pregnant friend of Lucy's at the beach party

Kevin James as Factory worker

Lynn Collins as Linda

Media Release
50 First Dates released on DVD and video June 15, 2004.

Aspect Ratios

 * 2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
 * 1.85:1 (Full Open Matte)
 * 1.33:1 (Standard Deviation)

DVD Menu

 * Play Movie
 * Scenes
 * 1) Start
 * Ula
 * 1) Saving a Sick Animal
 * 2) Henry Meets Lucy
 * 3) The Straw Cow Incident
 * 4) Another Day, Another Birthday
 * 5) A $20 Bet
 * 6) The "I Can't Read" Approach
 * 7) The Outdoors Approach
 * 8) Lucy Learns the Truth
 * 9) Dr. Keats
 * 10) A Secret Admirer
 * 11) First Kisses
 * 12) A Song for Lucy
 * 13) Strange Bedfellows
 * 14) Lucy's Journal
 * Languages
 * Audio: English and French
 * Subtitles: English and French
 * Bonus Features
 * Drew Barrymore and Director Peter Segal Commentary
 * Featurettes
 * Blooper Reel
 * Deleted Scenes
 * Sandler's New Album

Language Dubs

 * 50 First Dates/Language Dubs

Other Languages

 * 50 First Dates/Other Languages

Quotes

 * 50 First Dates/Quotes

Credits

 * 50 First Dates/Credits