Practice Rom-Com Synopsis - 50 first dates

Film Synopsis

I did this film synopsis because it is in the genre that i have chosen and it gave me ideas to start thinking about my own Rom-Com and also made it clear the sort of detail the storyline has to be in for my own film.

This exercise helped me think of my own ideas and also gave me experience in writing film synopsis's for Rom-Coms. In addition, there are many things that i can link into my own film like little details and the conventions that goes along with them.  

50 First Dates

Both characters meet in a café; they agree to meet each other the next day in the same café. The next day, the girl (Lucy) claims not to know who the man (Henry) is. The owner of the café then pulls Henry aside to tell him that Lucy suffers from short term memory loss and cannot remember anything from the day before. She cannot remember her accident and each day her family rein act the day of her accident to stop Lucy from going through the pain of not remembering anything from the past year.  Henry realises that he is falling in love with Lucy so every day he try’s to find a way of meeting her in hope that she will retain her memories. One day she hears that Henry had cancelled his plans to go to the Antarctic which eh had been saving for, for 10 years, because of this she ends the relationship and commits herself to go to a specialised unit in hospital.  As Henry was leaving to go to Antarctica he remembered Lucy, he went to the hospital to see her and she still says that she doesn’t know who he is but had a dream about him last night, this was because of all the paintings she had made of him. She believes she remembers him because she is in love and therefore they restart their relationship. At the end of the film, Lucy wakes up (several years later) with a video tape playing, reading “Good Morning, Lucy”. The tape explains everything about her accident and shows footage of Henry and Lucy’s wedding. Lucy cries. Lucy comes out of her room and onto the deck of the boat was Henry, her father and her young daughter sailing through the Arctic.