The Wedding Singer

(New Line)

This mindless but cute romantic comedy set in the '80s has Adam Sandler as a Van Halen wanna-be who lives in his sister's basement and pulls gigs as a wedding singer, and Drew Barrymore as a bouncy, doe-eyed wedding caterer. Sandler shows an emotional range beyond his usual mercurial knucklehead; Barrymore drops her adolescent nymph in favor of a more sensitive, mature persona. Eventually, of course, love finds a way.