Drew Barrymore didn’t forget the anniversary of 50 First Dates, the romantic comedy she and Adam Sandler did in 2004, in which she played a woman with short-term memory loss who he had to make fall in love with him again every single day.
The host of the Drew Barrymore Show posted a snapshot of the two smiling at the camera, wearing the wardrobe for the sweet scene in which Sandler’s character, Henry Roth, plays his acoustic guitar and serenades her Lucy Whitmore with the song “Forgetful Lucy.”
The film, which costarred Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Dan Akroyd, and Maya Rudolph, opened in theaters one day before Valentine’s Day in 2004. The Peter Segal-directed flick was much closer to Barrymore and Sandler’s 1998 collaboration The Wedding Singer than the comedian’s over-the-top comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore.
The movie was released ahead of Sandler-starring films like James L. Brooks’ Spanglish, sports comedy remake The Longest Yard, and family-friendly Click. For Barrymore, 50 First Dates followed the blockbuster sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and dark comedy Duplex, which costarred Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Rudolph. In theaters, it raked in $198.5 million worldwide on a $75 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo.
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More importantly, it cemented Barrymore and Sandler as a favorite onscreen couple, like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Sandler and Barrymore took home the prize for Best On-Screen Team that year at what was then called the MTV Movie Awards.
The duo reteamed for a third time with 2014’s Blended, which once again featured them playing characters who fall in love (this time their kids were involved). They’ve grown so close over the years that, in November, Barrymore revealed on her show in November that she had recently discovered one of her daughters and one of Sandler’s watching the Hawaiian-set 50 First Dates together.
“I was like, ‘Why are you guys watching this? Don’t you get enough of me and your dad?'” Barrymore said. “And they were just so happy, and I was like, ‘Oh, but this is so sweet and wonderful.'”
And if Barrymore has it her way, the duo will do a fourth film with their mutual friend and former costar, Jennifer Aniston. “I’m so busy talking to him and Jennifer Aniston about doing a threefer, if you will,” she told ET this month. “I really want to make it happen. Timing is everything.”