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50 First Dates is a 2004 romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and directed by Peter Segal.

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Henry Roth (Adam Sandler), a marine veterinarian living in Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) at breakfast. They hit it off and Henry eagerly returns to the cafe the next day in order to meet her again; however, Lucy doesn't remember who he is.

It turns out that Lucy was involved in a car accident involving a stray cow and a tree on Sunday, 13 October (her father's birthday), and suffered brain damage resulting in anterograde amnesia, damaging Lucy's short-term memory. Therefore, every morning she wakes up believing it to still be her father's birthday (which was also the day of the accident) and is unable to remember anything that has taken place after that day.

Lucy's father (Blake Clark), a retired fisherman/sailor, and her brother (Sean Astin), a would-be bodybuilder, do everything they can to keep Lucy from discovering her condition. Fortunately for them, since Hawaii's climate is generally stable year-round, there are no changing seasons to clue her in. Her late mother's best friend, the proprietress of the diner where she has breakfast every day, also helps shield her from the truth.

Every night Lucy's father and brother paint their garage walls white, as they were the morning of the accident, so Lucy can paint murals, as she did before. Every day is her father's birthday, complete with party hats, and Lucy's gift is of course always the same: a video of The Sixth Sense
she had bought for him before the accident, which the two men dutifully watch with her without betraying any knowledge of the twist at its end.

Henry tries the same flirtation on consecutive days - one day, he tries using a toothpick as a door hinge in a house of waffles that Lucy is constructing, and she responds favourably; but the next day she reacts differently, asking "Are you from some country where it's okay to put your hands all over someone else's food?" Henry realises that he will need to vary his approach every day in order to win her over - on one occasion, he pretends that he can't read the menu, crying in despair until Lucy comes over to comfort him and "teach him some of the words"; of course, she knew all along he was only pretending, but was touched that someone would try so hard to pick her up.

Told off by her father, Henry promises to keep away from the diner, but he figures his promise doesn't apply to meeting her at other places. Every day he tries a new way of meeting her on the road, asking for a jump or pretending that his stoner buddy Ula (Rob Schneider) is beating him up. It is when he poses as a kidnap victim, and is found all tied up in the back of his truck, that he is invited by Lucy's father to visit the house. Lucy is found singing at the top of her lungs, having the time of her life painting in the workshop, and her father reveals that she only sings on the days when she meets Henry.

One day, though, Lucy sees a sheriff writing her a ticket for expired car tags and storms out of the diner to protest. "It's still October, see? Look at this newspaper!" To her consternation and dismay, what she thinks will be her vindication actually reveals the passage of a shocking length of time. She drives home and confronts her father, who is forced to confirm the bad news. Screaming and crying, she is comforted by the three men in her life: her calm, devoted father, who hands her a scrapbook with the news article of the accident (caused by their swerving to avoid hitting a cow) and a grisly picture of her lying in a coma in the hospital; her ditzy but loyal brother; and her new friend, or perhaps boyfriend, Henry.

They visit her neurologist (Dan Aykroyd), who explains her condition: Lucy's condition is not as bad as that of Ten-Second Tom (see also The Man with the 7 Second Memory), a man who has no short-term memory at all. Rather, she gets a whole day. But in the movie's premise, her brain fails to convert the short-term memories of the day into long-term memory when she sleeps.

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