He can forget this woman or try to make her love him over again each day. Her father and brother (Sean Astin) work to keep her from realizing the extent of her trauma since they’ve seen what it does to her to be told. Since the accident, each morning, she wakes up thinking it’s the same day and has no recollection of anything she did the days before. She sustained terrible brain damage that prevents her brain from processing short term memories into long term ones. Over a year ago, Lucy was in a car accident with her father (Blake Clark). That’s when Sue (Amy Hill) who owns the diner, pulls him aside and tells him about Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore). But to his surprise, the next day when he approaches her, she seems to have no memory of him. One day, he spies a beautiful young woman eating breakfast in a local diner and chats her up. He’s also a player afraid of commitment who has worked out various schemes that enable him to quickly hook up with, enjoy, and then dump lovely tourists when their vacations end. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a marine veterinarian who works in a sea aquarium type job in beautiful Hawaii. But let me also be clear that it’s Sandler and Barrymore’s performances that work for me while some of the secondary arcs fell totally flat. Will miracles never cease? Thank you DA community, for urging me to give this one a chance because if you hadn’t, I never would have. I’ve actually watched, and enjoyed, a second Adam Sandler film. “You’re the girl of my dreams…and apparently I’m the man of yours.” – Henry RothĮven as I sit here writing this review, I can’t believe it. NOTE: there will probably be spoilers for the events of the film. Jayne Film Reviews amnesia / Friday Film Review / Hawaii / romantic comedy 30 Comments
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