I’m sure this is gonna be a curve ball for a lot of people reading this. An Adam Sandler movie? He’s got to be kidding, right?
No, not really. As far as Sandler’s films go, a lot of them can range from silly to raunchy, but this one feels like it fits for me. He plays opposite Drew Barrymore, a young woman who, due to a car accident some time prior, deals with short-term memory loss. She wakes up each day still thinking it’s the same day as when she had her accident, never remembering it having happened. (And she never remembers meeting him each day either.) His attempts to woo her, in spite of the pushback from her family, end up working in the end as she seems to gradually gain some subconscious memories of him, and they do manage to end up together.
I know that Sandler is mostly known for his comedy chops, but from what I remember of this it shows a different side of him. His attempts at trying to fall in love – and succeeding by the end, with some great lengths that he goes to – are genuine because he knows he’s going to have to sacrifice a part of himself to try to make things work. No two relationships ever work out to be exactly the same, and the one that he and Barrymore portray is certainly one worth working for.
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