The Wedding Singer

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The Wedding Singer

PG-13,

1998,

1h 36m,

Romance/

Comedy

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Set in 1985, Adam Sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. He loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his fiancé. He meets a young woman named Julia, who enlists his help to plan her wedding. Eventually, he falls in love with her and must win her over before she gets married.

Critics Consensus

It's decidedly uneven -- and surprisingly sappy for an early Adam Sandler comedy -- but The Wedding Singer is also sweet, funny, and beguiling.

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Leonard Klady

Variety

Jun 1, 2008

Supporting players are uniformly strong, and Coraci deserves much credit for exacting just the right degree of outrageousness without spinning into some wild orbit.

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Jul 12, 2002

2/4

Finally, an Adam Sandler comedy that you can sit through without wanting to throw a mallet through the screen.

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Jun 18, 2002

2/4

As Robbie Hart, a former lead singer in a rock band reduced to performing at weddings, Sandler goes for more than the easy laughs.

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Catherine Searcey

Loud and Clear Reviews

Mar 3, 2026

A brilliant romcom full of gaudy costumes, ostentatious characters and a sweet love story at its centre.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

May 19, 2023

4/5

Sandler and Barrymore succeed in elevating The Wedding Singer as one of the better romantic comedies in the late 1990s.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

May 17, 2023

4/5

A pitch-perfect celebration of a time when male perms and Van Halen were in at the same time, 25 years after it was first released, this 1985-set comedy is perhaps still the most crowd-pleasing and entertaining 90 minutes of Adam Sandler’s career.

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Albus P

Apr 5, 2019

The Sandman at his best.

Draco W

Mar 18, 2019

A predictable love story held together nicely by the occasional laugh, The Wedding Singer is an above-average Adam Sandler romance movie, perfectly forgettable except for a handful of moments you'll genuinely enjoy.

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Anakin W

Jan 6, 2019

absolute trash garbage. i might like it if i was a high school girl. the cheesiest, lamest romance i've ever watched. and it wasn't funny at all. i chuckled maybe 3 times. i stopped the movie with about 30 minutes left, which is extremely uncommon for me. i would normally finish it, at least at fast speed. but it was too awful. the scene that made me laugh and quit is when she calls him an asshole and throws the papers in the air lmao (1 viewing)

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Ron P

Jun 23, 2018

Easily Adam Sandler's best movie. It has lots of humor and is definitely my favorite love story.

Hagrid W

May 17, 2018

Funny and sweet. About what you'd expect from an Adam Sandler 90's RomCom, and it has a good soundtrack.

Harry S

Mar 31, 2018

no exceptions.. The Wedding Singer There are some genuine laughs here and there that too especially when it mocks and points out its own petty script that is filled with cliched sequences which is sugar coated by innocent relation between the protagonists. Tim Herlihy's wafer thin script fails to provide anything to the audience resulting piling the load on the director Frank Coraci who is unfortunately okayish in his work. Adam Sandler; at the heart of it, won't disappoint (if one is palpable to its offered usual tone) with Drew Barrymore who too holds on to her part. The Wedding Singer is your typical rom-com that checks off each and every prediction of the viewers and fails to deliver anything beyond your low expectations.

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Frank Coraci

Director

Adam Sandler

Robert J. 'Robbie' Hart

Drew Barrymore

Julia 'Jules' Sullivan

Christine Taylor

Holly Sullivan

Allen Covert

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Matthew Glave

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Synopsis

Set in 1985, Adam Sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. He loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his fiancé. He meets a young woman named Julia, who enlists his help to plan her wedding. Eventually, he falls in love with her and must win her over before she gets married.

Director: Frank Coraci
Producer: Jack Giarraputo, Robert Simonds
Screenwriter: Tim Herlihy
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Juno Pix
Rating: PG-13 (Sex-Related Material|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 13, 1998, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $80.2M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, SDDS, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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