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Every morning is Sunday, October 13, and every morning Henry has to make Lucy fall in love with him again. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's Hawaiian reunion gave 2004 the Good Morning Lucy tape, Ten-Second Tom, a walrus named Jocko and 311's reggae-tinged cover of The Cure, and left a trail of remakes from Telugu to Japanese.
Adam Sandler as a failed hockey player with a 400-yard running drive and a grandmother in trouble with the IRS — somehow this became a 1996 classic. Christopher McDonald's smug Shooter McGavin, Carl Weathers' one-handed mentor Chubbs, and a Bob Barker brawl that won MTV's Best Fight. You've attempted the Happy Gilmore swing at least once.
Bobby Boucher, his Mama, Coach Klein, and the Mud Dogs' forty-game losing streak. Adam Sandler's 1998 Cajun football comedy drew some of the worst reviews of his career, opened to a November record anyway, and as of 2020 was still the highest-grossing sports comedy ever made.
Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a 1985 wedding singer dumped at the altar, and Drew Barrymore as the waitress he writes "Grow Old With You" for. The film that proved Sandler could be sweet, and the first pairing of two stars who kept coming back to each other.