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| Fifty First Dates is probably one of Adam Sandler’s best movies to date. I laughed most of the way through, and found the story line intriguing. |
(2003) Film Review |
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| CREDITS |
|  Directed by Peter Segal
Screenplay by George Wing
Producers
Scott Bankston ... executive producer
Allen Covert ... executive producer
Michael Ewing ... co-producer
Jack Giarraputo ... producer
Steve Golin ... producer
Nancy Juvonen ... producer
Larry Kennar ... producer
Daniel Lupi ... executive producer
Jay Roach ... executive producer
A dam Sandler ... producer
Cast - in credits order
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
Nephi Pomaikai Brown¹ ... Nick
Joe Nakashima ... Old Hawaiian Man
Peter Dante ... Security Guard
 Dom Magwili ... Security Guard
Jonathan Loughran ... Jennifer
J.D. Donaruma ... Young Man
Wayne Federman ... Patient
Kent Avenido ... Cook's Helper
Sharon Omi ... Cafe Regular
Glen Chin ... Cafe Regular
Original Music by Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography by Jack N. Green
Editors by Jeff Gourson
MPAA: Rated PG-13 on appeal for crude sexual humor and drug references.
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM, and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG |
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50 First Dates
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| SYNOPSIS |
 50 FIRST DATES is a lighthearted comedy from director Peter Segal (ANGER MANAGEMENT, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR I & II). When the ultimate bachelor (Adam Sandler) meets the woman of his dreams (Drew Barrymore)
only to discover that her short-term memory loss causes her to constantly forget who he is--and that they're dating, he is faced with a true challenge. |
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by
MELINDA LEDMAN BLOG
HJMLedman@yahoo.com.
Melinda
Ledman is a graduate of Baylor University with a Bachelor’s
degree in English. During college, she worked on the film Letter
From Waco (director Don Howard), which won the award for best documentary
feature in the 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival. After she
and her husband Rob had their first child in September 2002, she
began free-lance writing full time. In addition to writing reviews,
she most enjoys writing original screenplays. She gratefully serves
God after 12 years of alcoholism, and appreciates grace and freedom
on a whole new level. |
 Fifty First Dates is probably one of Adam Sandler’s best movies to date. I laughed around every corner, and found the story line intriguing. Adam Sandler’s character, Henry Roth, really makes this movie shine.
Sandler usually plays goofy characters with relatively shallow personalities. This one is very different, and I found that I liked Sandler even more after watching this movie. Henry has depth, a sincere desire to love someone, and he speaks his mind candidly. Not candidly in a coarse way, but in a sincere, honest, and realistic way. At several points in the movie, a character sets him up for a potential joke, but he replies with an honest answer. He speaks words that you or I might say
in real life. This alone made Fifty First Dates stand out above most of Sandler’s other comedies. The jokes were well placed, but so was the crucial dialogue.
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for theme, the most obvious spiritual parallel is unconditional
love. Like Henry, God loves us with a new and fresh energy
every day. He loves to spend time with us, even when we forget
who he is and what he has done to win our love. He is in the business
of making our lives richer, regardless of our inadequacies or
shortcomings. The movie also reflects the great lengths that God
will go to just for the benefit of loving us. The benefit to him,
that is. We don’t always love him back, even when we do
know what he’s done for us. We fail to trust, fail to believe,
and shun him in our pain. But, he just keeps on coming--because
he delights in us. The verse that comes to mind is Lamentations
3:22-23, “Because of the Lord’s great love, we are
not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every
morning; great is Your faithfulness.”
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