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In The Wedding Singer it's 1985 rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party - until his own fiancee leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. Only trouble is Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of the decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. With a brand new score that pays loving homage to the pop songs of the 1980's, The Wedding Singer takes us back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer just might be the coolest guy in the room.
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The Wedding Singer is the first Adam Sandler flick that guys can take their girlfriends to see. It is a nice (and funny) comedy about a guy (wedding singer Sandler) who has been dumped by his fiancee and is soon falls in love with (waitress) Drew Barrymore who is ... engaged, but isn't in love either. It is a nice comedy that almost comes close to a romantic comedy. Steve Buscemi, Jon Lovitz, and best of all, Billy Idol. A+
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BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK | As dorky comedies go, "The Wedding Singer" has an easy, affable charm. Frank Coraci's '80s-nostalgia comedy is predictable and unevenly paced, and it lunges too often for the easy joke. (You might wish you had a nickel for every time some outrageous or off-color comment springs from the mouth of a precocious youngster or a wrinkly old person.) Call it Old Home Week for aging new wavers: A sprawling selection of mid-'80s new wave classics -- from the sublime (Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?") to the ridiculous (Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy") -- sometimes seems to be the only thing holding the movie's loose-jointed scenes together. Billy Idol even plays himself.
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In addition to "The Wedding Singer," Herlihy has written or co-written the films "Billy Madison," "Happy Gilmore," "The Waterboy," "Big Daddy," and "Mr. Deeds." He was formerly head writer of the groundbreaking television series "Saturday Night Live."
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Essentially, The Wedding Singer follows Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, the titular character, who is fixated upon the idea of participating in his own wedding. Devastatingly, though, when the big day comes, his bride to be is a no-show. She has realized that she could not spend the rest of her life with a lowly wedding singer. Consequently, the break-up has traumatized Robbie so much that he must avoid the painful experience of weddings altogether. Thus, his new line as a Bar mitzvah singer. Shortly thereafter, Drew Barrymore as Julia begins to open his eyes to love again, at which point Robbie must contend with her creep fiancee Glen for her affections.
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Prior to its Broadway bow, The Wedding Singer will world premiere at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Previews will begin at the Washington theatre Jan. 31, 2006, with an official opening scheduled for Feb. 8. The limited engagement will play through Feb. 19. No casting has been announced for the production.
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