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Robbie Hart is a wedding singer in Ridgefield, New Jersey in 1985, whose own wedding to his fiancée Linda is approaching. He meets and befriends Julia Sullivan, a new waitress at the reception hall where he works, and promises to sing at her wedding, though her fiancé, businessman and bond investor Glenn Gulia, has yet to set a date.
Feb 13, 1998 · With Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen Covert. Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.
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- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Frank Coraci
- 1998-02-13
80's nostalgia flick in which Adam Sandler plays Robbie Hart, a suburban wedding singer who gets dumped at the altar by his fiancee. He meets Julia, who is engaged to the wrong guy, and he falls in love with her. He then tries to figure out how he can make her realize what a jerk her fiance really is. — Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu> It's 1985.
- THE DIRECTOR’S OWN REAL-LIFE HEARTBREAK ALLOWED HIM TO TAP INTO THE FILM’S EMOTION. Longtime Sandler friend and collaborator Frank Coraci directed The Wedding Singer, and said that his own experience with having his heart broken was part of what allowed him to tap into the movie’s unique balance of humor and heartfelt romance.
- THE IDEA TO SET THE FILM IN THE 1980S CAME FROM THE RADIO. The Wedding Singer was written by Tim Herlihy, a longtime collaborator of Sandler’s who, in addition to writing for Saturday Night Live, wrote the scripts for Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy (among other Sandler-starring films).
- SANDLER WANTED TO MAKE A “PRO-LOVE” FILM. While promoting the movie on Late Night With Conan O’Brien in 1998, Sandler said, “We wanted to make a romantic comedy that was heavy on the laughs.
- THE MOVIE DOESN’T FEATURE ANY SEX SCENES, AND THERE’S A REASON FOR THAT. In the same interview, Conan O’Brien asked Sandler why there weren’t any sex scenes in the film, which seemed odd for a rom-com.
Robbie : You don't know how much I need you. / While you're near me, I don't feel blue / And when we kiss I know you need me to. / I can't believe I found a love that's so pure and true. But it all was bullshit. / It was a goddamn joke / And when I think of you, Linda / I hope you fucking choke.
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Fantasy. Sci-fi. Robert J. Hart also known as Robbie is the main protagonist of the 1998 Romantic Comedy movie The Wedding Singer. He is portrayed by Adam Sandler, who also portrayed Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Bobby Boucher, Sam Brenner, Q*bert from Pixels, Archie Moses, Skeeter Bronson, Davey Stone, Whitey...
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