Take your valentine to a 'wedding'

February 13, 1998
Web posted at: 2:21 p.m. EST (1921 GMT)

HOLLYWOOD, California (CNN) -- Just in time for Valentine's Day: a Hollywood romance about a wedding singer who finds true love.

Adam Sandler of "Saturday Night Live" stars as "Robbie Hart," the lead singer of a band that plays for weddings. After Sandler is left at the altar, he falls for a banquet waitress, played by Drew Barrymore.

The trouble is, she is engaged to a Wall Street broker.

"We were thinking, 'Who would be the perfect person, you know, to fall in love with?'" director Frank Coraci told CNN. "And Drew is that kind of person."

"I'm so romantic," the actress agreed. "I'm totally quixotic. I'm hopeless, and I will do anything to express love as often as I can, and I loved that this movie sort of in every way condoned that."

Barrymore is also a big Sandler fan.

"I've seen all his movies, and I've heard all his records," she said. "I own all his records."

In the last few years, Sandler has enjoyed modest box office success with the comedies "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore."

"I wanted to do a romantic comedy that stressed the comedy, and hit a lot of jokes," Sandler said about his attraction to his latest film project.

He's also enjoyed working with Barrymore.

"It's fun to listen to a Drew story and ... hear what her take on something is," he told CNN.

"The Wedding Singer" is set in the mid-1980s in a fictional New York City suburb, and its jokes rely heavily on one's knowledge of the period -- including references to television-show favorites "Dynasty," "Dallas" and "Miami Vice."

The New Line Cinema release is rated PG-13.

Clips from "The Wedding Singer"
	Full trailer: VXtreme streaming video (2:20)
	Partial trailer: Large frame: 3.9MB/49 sec. QuickTime Movie Small frame: 1.8MB/49 sec. QuickTime Movie

CNN Correspondent Paul Vercammen contributed to this report.

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