Drew Barrymore Posts “50 First Dates” Throwback with Adam Sandler

'The Drew Barrymore Show' host reflected on her 2004 rom-com with her longtime friend

Drew Barrymore/Instagram Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler

Drew Barrymore is reminiscing about one of her favorite movies with Adam Sandler.

“Throwing it back @adamsandler,” the actress, 49, captioned a Throwback Thursday Instagram picture of herself with her 50 First Dates costar, 58, on Thursday, Feb. 13.

The image showed the longtime friends sitting outdoors together on the set of the 2004 rom-com — where Barrymore played Lucy Whitmore, a woman dealing with short-term memory loss after a car accident.

Sandler portrayed Henry Roth, a man who arranged dozens of dates to help her remember. In addition to Lucy’s overprotective family and friends, Henry also had to overcome the challenges of reintroducing himself to Lucy each time they met for a date.

During a November 2024 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the talk show host revealed that her and Sandler’s daughters had recently watched the film together.

"My daughter and Adam's daughter were watching [50 First Dates] at my house the other night,” she recalled for the talk show guests Emily Osment and Montana Jordan. “I was like, 'Why are you guys watching this? Don't you get enough of me and your dad?' "

Barrymore shares daughters Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, with ex-husband Will Kopelman, while Sandler and his wife, Jackie Sandler, are mom and dad to Sadie, 18, and Sunny, 16.

"And they were just so happy, and I was like, 'Oh, but this is so sweet and wonderful,' " the Charlie’s Angels alum said.

A few months prior, Barrymore revealed that 50 First Dates was almost completely different from the classic rom-com that fans know and love today.

Drew Barrymore/Instagram; Kevin Mazur/Getty Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler

In an August 2024 episode of her eponymous daytime talk show, the actress revealed that the Peter Segal-directed romantic comedy based in Hawaii was almost "a drama set in Seattle."

But the surprises didn’t end there!

Instead of Lucy and Henry having their happily ever after, Barrymore said on her show that the movie almost ended with "[Lucy telling Henry], 'You should go and live your life, because this is no life here.' "

She told her co-host Ross Mathews, "And [Henry] goes away, as he does, and he comes back and he walks into the restaurant and he just sits down and says, 'Hi, I'm Henry.' And the film ends.”

Matthews was grateful that the story was changed to what we now know it as today.

Barrymore, who previously told Entertainment Tonight that she and Sandler are “so close” and “text all the time,” has also starred in 1998's The Wedding Singer and 2014's Blended with the comedian.

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During a March 2023 interview with PEOPLE, the Scream alum said her working relationship with Sandler was "all based in like, love, admiration and humor."

"I wanted some place to put my admiration and I thought a film was the most safe and cathartic place to do it," Barrymore added.