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Adam Sandler had an idea for a comedy about a wedding singer who gets left at the altar, and suggested it to Tim Herlihy. Inspired by the radio show "Lost in the '80s" Herlihy decided to set the film in that decade.
- Princess Leia Worked on The Script
- Several Cast Members Guested on Friends
- It’S The Highest-Rated Sandler Comedy on Rotten Tomatoes
- The Rapping Granny Was The only Other Star to Appear on The Official Soundtrack
- The Soundtrack Album Reached No.1 in Australia
- An Uncredited Brian Posehn Made His Film Debut
- Adam Sandler Was Once A Real Life Wedding Singer
- It Was The First Sandler Film to Gross $100 Million
- It Was The First of Three Sandler/Barrymore Collaborations
- Billy Idol’s Son Inspired Him to Be in The Film
Best-known for her iconic Star Wars role as Princess Leia, multi-talented Carrie Fisher picked up a BAFTA nomination after adapting her semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge, for the big screen back in 1990. But she also spent part of the same decade doctoring screenplays for several more populist films. First, there was nun-on-the-r...
It’s probably easier to list which of the cast members didn’t at one point show up on the set of Friendsthan the ones who did. Christine Taylor, who plays Julia’s sexually-charged friend Holly, was of course, Ross’ girlfriend Bonnie, aka the one who shaved her head during the beach house episodes. While Christina Pickles, who plays Julia’s overbear...
There’s nothing that film critics appear to enjoy more than giving Adam Sandler a good kicking. 13 of the movies he’s had a hand in have a rating of lower than 10% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with both Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star and The Ridiculous Sixreceiving the dreaded zero. However, there have been a few occasions when Sandle...
Alongside Sandler’s performances of the likes of Dead or Alive’s ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ and Ricky Nelson’s ‘That’s All,’ the film sees a whole host of other actors showcase their vocal abilities. Jon Lovitz performs the most creepy version of ‘Ladies Night’ you’ll ever hear, Alexis Arquette gives Culture Club’s frontman a run for his m...
The majority of cast recordings you hear in the film may not have appeared on the actual official soundtrack, but that didn’t stop it from becoming a chart success. The first 14-track collection, which includes Sandler performing original composition ‘Somebody Kill Me,’ a snippet of dialogue called ‘Have You Written Anything Lately’ and the Preside...
All actors have to start somewhere. Brian Posehn had already enjoyed blink and you’ll miss it roles on the sitcoms Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Empty Nest, and was a regular face on sketch show Mr. Show with Bob and David. But the comedian hadn’t appeared on the big screen until he played the less-than-pivotal role of ‘Man at Table 9’ durin...
Well not professionally, but Sandler did have at least some experience of what it’s like to perform in front of a pair of newlyweds before taking on the role of Robert ‘Robbie’ Hart. The comedian was forced by his mother to sing Ringo Starr’s ‘You’re 16’ and Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ – the only two songs he knew all the words to – at his sister’...
As of 2016, 20 films which Sandler has worked on have cracked the $100m barrier at the worldwide box-office, with the Hotel Transylvania movies ($379m and $471m respectively), Grown Ups (an astonishing $247m) and Pixels ($244m) his biggest hits. But before The Wedding Singer came along, Sandler hadn’t got anywhere near that magical figure, with Air...
Adam Sandler has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s most glamorous and acclaimed leading ladies including Marisa Tomei, Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Cruz, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Garner, Patricia Arquette, Winona Ryder, Emily Watson, Jessica Biel and Salma Hayek. But the most convincing and the most successful partnership he’s struck up on scree...
Famous for his spiky blonde hairstyle, snarling lip-curl and leather jacket, post-punk rocker Billy Idol was one of the definitive early stars of MTV, reaching the US Top 10 in the '80s with the likes of ‘Eyes Without a Face,’ ‘To Be a Lover’ and ‘Mony Mony.’ So an invitation to appear in one of the films most heavily indebted to the decade that ta...
- Jon O'brien
The Wedding Singer: Directed by Frank Coraci. 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.
- (164K)
- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Frank Coraci
- 1998-02-13
- It was originally going to be another slapstick comedy. According to "Wedding Singer" screenwriter Tim Herlihy — Adam Sandler's college roommate turned professional partner for close to 40 years at this point — there wasn't a conscious effort to make the film drastically different than "Billy Madison" or "Happy Gilmore."
- Boy George loved Alexis Arquette's performance. Adam Sandler wisely surrounds himself with fantastic character actors in his films, and one of the best that he ever worked with was Alexis Arquette.
- Carrie Fisher did uncredited work on the dialogue. All due respect to Bridgette Wilson and Julie Bowen — both fine actors who played Sandler's love interests in "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore," respectively — but they weren't exactly the deepest or most complex female leads in movie history.
- It helped kickstart the retro worship trend. Having movies, TV shows, and video games that are steeped in a particular era and built around the pop culture environment of said era is a common thing now, and has been for a while.
- Garin Pirnia
- 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.
Sep 13, 2019 · On paper, there’s a lot about The Wedding Singer that sounds like Sandler’s usual brand of low-brow humor: rapping old ladies, broad ’80s parodies, and his signature yelled line delivery. In...
It's decidedly uneven -- and surprisingly sappy for an early Adam Sandler comedy -- but The Wedding Singer is also sweet, funny, and beguiling. Read Critics Reviews
- (69)
- Romance, Comedy
- PG-13
