Drew Barrymore Says Her and Adam Sandler’s Daughters Watched 50 First Dates Together: ‘They Were Just So Happy’

Not only did Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler strike up a friendship with each other, but so did their children.

Barrymore, 49, revealed on the Monday, Nov. 4 episode The Drew Barrymore Show that her daughter and Sandler’s daughter recently had their very special movie night.

“My daughter and Adam’s daughter were watching [50 First Dates] at my house the other night,” she recalled for talk show hosts Emily Osment and Montana Jordan. “I thought, ‘Why are you watching this? Haven’t you had enough of me and your dad?’ ”

“They were so happy and I was like, ‘Oh, but this is so sweet and wonderful,'” she revealed.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the movie “50 First Dates”.

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While Barrymore talked about the sweet moment, she didn’t reveal which of her or Sandler’s daughters saw the movie. Barrymore has daughters Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, with ex-husband Will Kopelman. Sandler, 58, is the father of two daughters. He shares Sunny, 16, and Sadie, 18, with his wife Jackie.

Osment, 32 — who revealed on the show that she saw the film for the first time a few months ago — responded that it must be “comforting” to see the girls watching the film.

“It is,” Barrymore exclaimed. “Because your kids — a lot of the time — will reject so many things about you that when you see them accept something, you think, ‘Oh, how fantastic!’ ”

50 first dates directed by Peter Segal, it starred Barrymore as Lucy, an art teacher in Hawaii who suffers from anterograde amnesia after being in a car accident. As a result, he cannot remember a single day after that fateful day. Sandler plays marine vet Henry who, against all odds, pursues Lucy and their unconventional love story.

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Will Kopelman, Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, and Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore/Instagram

More recently, on an August episode of Barrymore’s show, she revealed that the 2004 romantic comedy was originally very different as a “drama set in Seattle” with an alternate ending. The film ends with Henry refreshing Lucy’s memory every morning with a videotape that reminds her of their love story.

But “the original ending,” Barrymore said on her show, “was [Lucy telling Henry]’You should go and live your life because this is no life here.’ ”

“The original ending was her saying [to Henry]’You should go and live your life, because this is not the life here,’ she told her co-host Ross Mathews. “And he left, like he did, and he came back and walked into the restaurant and just sat down and said, ‘Hi, I’m Henry.’ And the movie ends.”

Mathews responded, “Honestly, can I just say, Thank you. Thank you for changing that.”

Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Sadie Madison Sandler on March 16, 2023 in Paris, France.

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50 first dates marked the second film project for Sandler and Barrymore, who also dated in 1998. Wedding singer and in 2014 Mixed. Nearly a decade after their last project, Barrymore told PEOPLE in March 2023 that their relationship is “all about like, love, admiration and humor.”

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The Drew Barrymore Show airs weekdays on CBS (check local listings).

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