50 First Dates > Trivia

In an early scene, a dentist and a woman in the dentist’s chair talk. The woman playing the dentist is Jackie Sandler, Adam’s wife, and the woman in the chair is Linda Segal, Director Peter Segal’s wife, who is a dentist in real life.
The movie is dedicated to Adam Sandler’s father, Stan Sandler, who died during production.
The diner where Lucy has breakfast every morning was originally a house remodeled for the movie. It is located on a macadamia nut farm on the eastern side of Oahu. The same house was used in Tears of the Sun (2003), and scenes from Jurassic Park (1993) were filmed in nearby open fields.
The clinic that Lucy visits is called the “Callahan Institute” and Dr. Keats (Dan Aykroyd) states that it is “funded out of Sandusky, Ohio by T.B. Callahan, the automotive components tycoon”. In Tommy Boy (1995), Aykroyd plays a rival automotive components tycoon who is attempting to purchase Tom (T.B.) Callahan’s company.
Originally titled “50 First Kisses”.
The book Lucy reads at breakfast, “Still Life With Woodpecker – A Sort Of A Love Story” by Tom Robbins, is a love story set in Hawaii. Drew Barrymore chose that book because it ties into the film’s themes. She owned several copies of that book, even before filming.
The beach used in the love scene with Henry and Lucy is the same one that Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster used in From Here to Eternity (1953).
The yellow car Lucy drives is a 1973 Volkswagen Thing.
The original script was set in Seattle. After signing on, Adam Sandler changed the location to Hawai’i, citing the Islands’ natural beauty as a great setting for a romantic comedy and because few films are shot there. Setting the film in Hawai’i also supports the film’s central premise, as the Islands have a temperate climate year-round, making it less likely that Lucy would notice the changing seasons and the passage of time after her accident.
The Minnesota Vikings football game Marlin and Doug watch was the Vikings playing against the Detroit Lions on October 13, 2002. The Vikings beat the Lions 31-24.
Drew Barrymore revealed on her talk show that the original ending had Lucy telling Henry to leave because she felt her condition would hold him back in life and it wouldn’t be fair to him. He agrees to leave, and some time passes. In the final scene, Henry sits down opposite Lucy in the restaurant and introduces himself.