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Sandler film explores
love and amnesiaProduction starts Monday on Oahu on Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy "Fifty First Kisses," starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
Here's a peek at the script:
Henry Roth (Sandler), an aquarium veterinarian (to be shot at Sea Life Park), enjoys quickie relationships with tourists. The opening scene has several women telling friends about the cute guy they met in Hawaii. We meet Sandler as he tries to convince his latest girlfriend that he's a secret agent so she can't call him once she gets home.
Henry spends most of his time avoiding the advances of an angry Russian co-worker and playing with Jocko, a walrus.
Then he meets Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore) at a breakfast diner. She impresses him by creating a teepee, ridge poles, smoke hole and triangular entrance out of her waffles. Henry returns the next day finding Lucy in the same booth, in the same clothes, reading the same book. He helps her with a waffle log cabin and is smitten.
On the third day, Henry finds that she doesn't remember him or a thing about the previous day. The restaurant manager tells Henry that Lucy was in a car accident a year earlier and suffers from short-term memory loss, remembering nothing beyond the day of the accident. So Henry has to show her every day anew that he loves her.
Also in the cast is Rob Schneider, who plays Sandler's best friend, Ulu, a half-Filipino, half-Jewish surfer.
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