50 First Dates

Režie: Peter Segal, USA, 2004

USA, 2004
Szenenphoto aus 50 First Dates, © Columbia Pictures Corporation, Flower Films, Happy Madison


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Produkce Columbia Pictures Corporation
Flower Films
Happy Madison
Ředitel Peter Segal
Napsal Peter Segal
Hudba Teddy Castellucci
Střih Jeff Gourson
Ausstattung Alan Au
Architekt Domenic Silvestri
Dekorace Sada Robert Greenfield
Kostümbild Ellen Luther
Casting Roger Mussenden
Herci Sean Astin [Doug Whitmore]
Dan Aykroyd [Dr. Keats]
Drew Barrymore [Lucy Whitmore]
Blake Clark [Marlin Whitmore]
Blake Clark
Allen Covert [Ten Second Tom]
Amy Hill [Sue]
Maya Rudolph [Stacy]
Adam Sandler [Henry Roth]
Rob Schneider [Ula]
Rob Schneider [Alexa]

Technická specifikace
Technické Color,Lenght: 99 minut
Zvukový systém: not indicated
Premiéra: 13. únor 2004 in USA

Recenze (v němčině): "50 First Dates" reunites Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, whose winning ì
chemistry in "The Wedding Singer" struck theatrical gold in 1998. Although ì
its goofy high-concept premise won't bear much scrutiny, it offers a less ì
predictable ride than their first pairing, and lush Hawaiian locations to ì
boot. Pooling their boxoffice savvy and considerable onscreen charm, the duo ì
look destined for another romantic comedy happy ending.

Sandler, who reteams here with "Anger Management" director Peter Segal, plays ì
Henry Roth (if the name is a nod to the novelist, there's no indication). An ì
aquarium vet on Oahu, he's made something of a cottage industry of satisfying ì
vacationing women's desires for holiday flings. The love-'em-and-leave-'em ì
approach suits him fine because he's planning a yearlong boat trip to Alaska ì
to study an unspoiled walrus habitat.

Before he can head north, though, true love strikes. While cooling his heels ì
in a coffee shop after a sailing mishap, Henry spots Lucy (Barrymore) in a ì
booth, building a tepee out of waffles. Although local girls are anathema to ì
his game plan, Henry chats her up, sparks fly, and they're both smitten. But ì
the next time they meet, Lucy doesn't know who he is.

Cafe owner Sue (Amy Hill) fills him in: A head injury in a car accident has ì
left Lucy with no short-term memory. She remembers everything up until the ì
crash, but each day's experiences evaporate overnight. In the year since the ì
crackup, Lucy's protective father (Blake Clark, terrifically gruff and kind) ì
and brother (Sean Astin) have worked assiduously to shield her from the ì
trauma. With a weary resignation, they repeatedly re-create the same day, ì
until reality intrudes on the elaborate ruse and Lucy has to face the truth ì
-- one day at a time.

Because any relationship for Lucy is essentially a one-night stand, Henry's ì
friend Ula (Rob Schneider) points out that she's the perfect match for Henry. ì
With his ever-present gaggle of giggling kids, the unhappily married Ula gets ì
vicarious thrills from Henry's exploits, but he just as readily supports his ì
attempts to win over this most challenging of conquests.

Although Henry's conversion from cad to earnest lover proceeds at an ì
improbable velocity, simpatico audiences won't look far beyond the frothy ì
surface. George Wing's script proffers the idea that making your partner fall ì
in love with you anew every day is the ultimate romantic notion. Lurking in ì
this murky mix are all sorts of nagging questions. What kind of relationship ì
can be built and sustained on first impressions? Is brain damage the surest ì
route to domestic bliss?

But helmer Segal keeps things moving, capitalizing on the down-to-earth ease ì
between his two leads. They're surrounded by idiosyncratic supporting ì
characters, not to mention a joker of a walrus. As Ula, who's in a perpetual ì
fog from partaking of one of Hawaii's natural resources, Schneider gets the ì
island vibe right. Hill and Nephi Pomaikai Brown, who plays the cafe's ì
short-order cook, deliver local color and lingo.

Astin trades in his hobbit persona for fishnet shirts and a lisp, providing ì
the strongest comic support as Lucy's iron-pumping, steroid-popping brother. ì
Dan Aykroyd shows up briefly, and Lusia Strus gives it her all as Henry's ì
assistant of indeterminate gender, but the over-the-top character should have ì
been scrapped before shooting began.

Cinematographer Jack Green ("Unforgiven," "The Bridges of Madison County") ì
emphasizes the natural beauty of the Hawaiian island rather than its ì
tourist-attraction opulence, and production designer Alan Au brings whimsy to ì
the interiors. The film is dedicated to Sandler's late father." (Sheri ì
Linden, Hollywood Reporter, February 13, 2004)


"THE amnesia-themed "50 First Dates" is a best-forgotten romantic reunion ì
between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, who served as Sandler's only ì
credible love interest in his most tolerable movie, "The Wedding Singer."

Women are generally so irrelevant in Sandler's world that no one even ì
remembers that Marisa Tomei was the female lead in "Anger Management" or that ì
Winona Ryder did the honors in "Mr. Deeds."

The problem with "50 First Dates" isn't with Barrymore, who can more than ì
hold her own with Sandler, or with their palpable sexual chemistry.

Nor is there anything seriously wrong with the basic premise (attributed to ì
George Wing), a contrived but moderately clever and fairly sweet variation on ì
"Groundhog Day," which has an exasperated Sandler having to win over daily a ì
woman with absolutely no short-term memory.

The film repeatedly disappoints because Sandler and his director, Peter Segal ì
of the much funnier "Anger Management," have so little faith in focusing on ì
the two characters' plight that they interrupts the romance repeatedly for ì
vulgar, Farrelly brothers-style sexual and ethnic jokes that are so ì
relentlessly unfunny they may not even rouse Sandler's core constituency of ì
12-year-old males.

Sandler plays Henry Roth, a veterinarian on Maui and a most unlikely babe ì
magnet who limits his romantic conquests to non-committal tourists because ì
his college girlfriend ran off with an older woman.

But then he falls hard for Barrymore's Lucy, a sweetly goofy art teacher who ì
he first spies trying to build a fort out of waffles at a local breakfast ì
joint.

Sandler wins her over quickly, but then learns he must do it every single ì
day, since her memory is wiped clean every night due to an accident.

She can't even remember meeting him the previous day, so every night is a ì
one-night stand.

It requires a huge suspension of disbelief to buy that Lucy's father (Blake ì
Clark) and her brother have contrived, for utterly obscure reasons, to have ì
Lucy live out every day of her life the same as the last, thanks to a stack ì
of newspapers from the day of the accident, a videotaped football game and ì
daily watchings of "The Sixth Sense," whose ending surprises Lucy every time.

Sandler, and especially Barrymore, still mine a certain poignancy from the ì
situation, particularly when Henry starts beginning Lucy's days with a ì
videotape updating her on what's happened in the year since the accident.

But then Henry, who's been assured by a doctor (Dan Aykroyd) that her ì
condition is incurable, has to decide whether he can live with it for the ì
rest of her life.

That's the good part of the movie. The bad parts of the movie, and there are ì
many, focus on a walrus' sex life and many scenes with a pathetically unfunny ì
Rob Schneider as Henry's one-eyed native Hawaiiian buddy.

Then there is the recurring homoerotic subtext in most of Sandler's movie, ì
which in "50 First Dates" is positioned so flagrantly it will keep his fans ì
buzzing for years in Internet chat rooms.

Besides Henry's sexually ambiguous assistant at the aquarium and a formerly ì
female friend of Lucy's who has had sex reassignment surgery, much footage is ì
devoted to Lucy's lisping, steroid-crazed bodybuilder brother played by Sean ì
Astin, who pretty much squanders all the good will he generated for "The Lord ì
of the Rings: The Return of the King."

The movie's opening scene goes as far as to strongly suggest Henry himself is ì
bisexual.

The issue is never raised again ? too bad the filmmakers didn't also forget ì
another 50 percent or so of "50 First Dates." (Lou Lumenick, New York Post, ì
13. February 2004)


General Information

50 First Dates is a motion picture produced in the year 2004 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Peter Segal, with Sean Astin, Dan Aykroyd, Drew Barrymore, Blake Clark, Allen Covert, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file;

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