Adam Sandler woos Drew Barrymore in boy-meets-girl again and again story.

I liked it. Sometimes Sandler films can go over that crass edge and loose me in the prepubescent humor. Perhaps Barrymore pulled the movie into a credible direction; certainly the antics of Rob Schneider show us he didn't go the extra mile to class up this film. Like the encouragable character in Mr Deeds and Billy Madison, this Sandler proves likeable and no more pedantic than your average insecure guy might be.

Lucy (Barrymore) suffers from short-term memory loss due to a scar in her brain tissue caused by an accident; the scar prevents the short-term from becoming long term, it's explained. Henry (Sandler) is a Hawaii playboy, living on the commitment-free relationships made available by short, random encounters with tourists. At a breakfast diner one day, he becomes smitten with her, as she's a pretty, charming, and intelligent woman. Sadly, she's stuck in a world where every day is the Sunday of her dad's birthday, and she forgets who he is before the next morning, when they've arranged to meet again.

The romance and comedy ensues as Henry endears Lucy's family and spends every day getting her to fall in love with him. Again. Some days he's not so successful, which has its own humor. Even some of the days he is successful are funny; the commercials show the scene where she beats the crap out of Henry's pal Ula (Schneider) with a softball bat.

She has her "bad days," where she finds out it isn't that same Sunday, and this inspires Henry to try to introduce her to her affliction via daily video tapes, which she augments with a journal. It has its own turmoils, but overall seems to be successful. At least it gets dad and bro out of their routine of recreating Sunday and celebrating dad's birthday, including watching the gift video The Sixth Sense.

The conflict comes when she overhears Henry telling her dad that he had plans to study walruses in their natural habitat, but he's decided to forego that to be around her. She dumps him abruptly, and he goes on pining a bit.

Henry completes the reconstruction of his boat, and sets out for his arctic studies. As he's departing, Lucy's dad and bro drop by to give him a bon voyage. Dad lets him know that Lucy's moved to the brain center, where she's living well and is teaching again. As he sails on, in a tearful rendition of the Beach Boy's song...damn...it's slipped out of my short-term memory...

He turns around and heads for the clinic. He finds her, but she, of course, doesn't know who he is. However, she recognizes him as the man of her dreams, quite literally. She shows him her studio where she's created hundreds of sketches and paintings of him. He explains how she removed him from her journal, but how he loves her and so on.

In the end, we see them living the dream he had of studying walruses in the arctic, as she wakes on their boat, and comes on deck to be introduced to her daughter and has the reinforcement of her dad standing on the bow. It was a nice closing because it showed the "every day normal" that the situation had become for the characters; she was as spooked by the change in her surroundings and the sights on the video as they showed us when she woke that morning, but adapted quickly. I imagine they left the film on a good day.