50 First Dates 🎥 2004 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Dr. Henry Roth, a marine veterinarian at Sea Life Park Hawaii on Oahu, only dates tourists to avoid any serious commitments. His closest friends are Ula, a marijuana-smoking Islander; Alexa, his androgynous assistant; Willy, his pet African penguin; and Jocko, a walrus that lives at the park. One day, Henry’s boat breaks down, and while waiting for the Coast Guard at the Hukilau Café, he encounters art teacher Lucy Whitmore constructing architectural art with her waffles. Assuming she is a local, which prevents him from introducing himself, he unsuccessfully attempts to return to his womanizing routine.

The next day, he returns to the café and re-encounters Lucy; they instantly connect over breakfast and Lucy offers to meet him again for breakfast the next morning. The next day, Lucy shows no recollection of ever meeting him. The restaurant owner Sue explains to Henry that the year before, Lucy and her father Marlin traveled to the North Shore to pick a pineapple for his birthday. While they were returning, a cow wandered through a broken fence and onto the road, and the ensuing car crash resulted in Lucy being diagnosed with Goldfield’s syndrome, a fictional form of anterograde amnesia, whereby she remembers everything up until the night before the crash.

Although Lucy’s short-term memory functions normally during the day, that day’s experiences are lost when she sleeps, and she wakes up every morning thinking that it is Sunday, October 13. To spare her from the trauma of her condition, Marlin and Doug, Lucy’s steroid-addicted brother, re-enact Marlin’s birthday daily. Despite Sue’s warning, Henry attempts to get Lucy to have breakfast with him several times, but when he unintentionally offends her one-day he follows her home to apologize. There he meets Marlin and Doug, who instruct him to not speak to Lucy at breakfast.

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