Sunday, August 3, 2014

August 3 - The Wedding Singer

Today’s movie is a romantic comedy with a scene that happens on August 3. Watch this film  tonight and enjoy.

THE WEDDING SINGER                     
        
Robbie Hart is a singer who performs at weddings in 1980’s New Jersey. He is engaged to Linda, who became interested in him because she thought he was on a career path to be a rock star. He meets and becomes friends with Julia, a waitress at a venue where he often performs. She is engaged to Glenn. Linda, seeing Robbie’s career has stagnated leaves him at the altar on their wedding day. He dives into depression and Julia tries to cheer him up, in part by asking for his help in planning her own wedding. Then on a double date with Julia and Glenn and Robbie and Julia’s cousin, Robbie learns something disturbing. Glenn has been cheating of Julia and plans to continue this even after they are married. Julia and Robbie each start to develop feelings for each other, but both are afraid to express them and have some incorrect impressions about the other. Then  on August 3, 1985 [1:04:04 to 1:18:24] Robbie gets decked by Glenn after a heated argument. When a drunk Robbie goes home, Linda is there wanting to reconcile. The next morning she introduces herself as Robbie’s fiancée to Julia who had come to confess her feelings. This prompt her to tell Glenn she wants to get married at once and they elope to Las Vegas. Robbie breaks it off permanently with Linda and pursues Julia to Las Vegas. After some in-flight adventures involving 80’s icon Billy Idol’s help in exposing Glenn as the louse he is, Robbie and Julia confess their love for each other and are later married.
                
A greet romantic comedy. Sandler and Barrymore are perfect as the couple who are perfect for each other, but who can’t see it at first. Features fantastic music of the 80’s.

Julia says their wedding is scheduled for August 5th at 32:50, Robbie says at 1:23:58 they “were getting married tomorrow” so it is the 4th, so Glenn decks Robbie the night before

Producer - Robert Simonds, Jack Giarraputo and Brad Grey

Director - Frank Coraci

Screenplay - Tim Herlihy

Runtime – 1 hour 35 minutes

Released -  February 13, 1998

Starring –

Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart
Drew Barrymore as Julia Sullivan
Christine Taylor as Holly Sullivan
Allen Covert as Sammy
Angela Featherstone as Linda
Matthew Glave as Glenn Gulia
Ellen Albertini Dow as Rosie

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.




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