50 First Dates is a
2004 romantic comedy starring
Adam Sandler and
Drew Barrymore and directed by
Peter Segal.
Plot
Henry Roth (
Adam Sandler), a marine-life veterinarian living in
Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore (
Drew Barrymore), an art teacher, in a cafe one morning. They eventually develop a relationship, but it soon emerges that Lucy suffers from
anterograde amnesia (called 'Goldfield Syndrome' in the movie) from a car accident she was in a year earlier. Her condition has left her with no memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present, because she is incapable of converting short-term memories into long-term memories. At the beginning of each day, she loses all memory of the past day. She innocently believes every day to be
October 13,
2002. Her father and brother attempt to reenact the activities of October 13th, her father's birthday, every day, to prevent her from suffering from learning about the accident.