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The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer

Movie · 1998 · 15 people

Tim Herlihy wrote and Frank Coraci directed The Wedding Singer, a romantic comedy made in America in 1998. It was the first time Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore shared the screen, and it is remembered as Sandler's first romantic comedy. The two later reunited for 50 First Dates (2004) and Blended (2014), the latter also directed by Coraci. Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo produced.

It is set in 1985. Robbie Hart (Sandler), who dreams of becoming a songwriter, works as a wedding singer in small towns, and his path crosses with Julia (Barrymore), a charming waitress, at a wedding. Both are engaged to other people, but gradually they realise they are with the wrong partners. Robbie discovers how untrustworthy Julia's fiancé is and tries to show her. Christine Taylor, Allen Covert, Steve Buscemi and Jon Lovitz also appear.

Shot in Los Angeles in February and March 1997, it was released by New Line Cinema on 13 February 1998. On an $18 million budget it grossed $123 million worldwide, $80 million of it in North America. Reviews were generally positive, it is often ranked among Sandler's best comedies, and it won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss. The story became a Broadway musical in 2006, which opened in April and closed at the end of the year.

DirectorFrank Coraci
Production companyFlower Films

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Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi Film actor · 68 years old David 'Dave' Veltri Maree Cheatham Maree Cheatham Actor · 84 years old Nice Lady on Plane Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore Christine Taylor Allen Covert Angela Featherstone Matthew Glave Jon Lovitz Ellen Albertini Dow Alexis Arquette Billy Idol Christina Pickles Frank Sivero Kevin Nealon

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A romantic comedy whose message is not to marry the wrong person and to notice the right one in time. There are weddings, songs and a sweet love story, so teenagers and adults will enjoy it. It will not hold small children's interest much, since it is all about grown-up relationships. A good choice for a household looking for a light, warm evening film.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Every stop on the romantic-comedy route is here: two people engaged to others, a closeness that dawns slowly, and an untrustworthy fiancé exposed. The script never steps outside the pattern and its direction is clear from the start. What lifts it above the ordinary is Sandler, in his first romantic comedy, leaning on an emotional character, and the chemistry he finds with Barrymore; that the pair teamed up twice more shows the chemistry was no accident. Setting the story in 1985 gives it a light period frame. It is a formula film, but a skilfully built one, and asking for more would be unfair.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Putting weddings at the centre is an interesting choice: marriage here is both a way of earning a living and a life stage everyone is expected to enter in due course. The leads slowly realising they are engaged to the wrong people points to the gap between a partner chosen to meet social expectations and someone you truly fit with. Being made in 1998 and set in 1985 also says something about how strong the longing for the eighties was by the late nineties. Still, the film does not dig into these questions; it prefers to stay within the comfortable limits of romantic comedy.

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