Blended [Includes Digital Copy]

Overview

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite with Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci for this Warner Bros. romantic comedy about a terrible blind date that segues into a nightmare family vacation. Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) are two single parents just looking for love. In the wake of a blind date that turns disastrous, both agree that they're better off single. Just when Lauren and Jim thought they would never see each other again, however, their two families end up at the same African safari resort for spring break. Could it possibly be that their relationship is so crazy it just might work? Kevin Nealon, Shaquille O'Neal, Terry Crews, and Joel McHale co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/26/2014
UPC:	0883929386925
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00

Special Features

Adam and Drew back together again; Bella Thorne's makeover; Deleted scenes; Gag reel; And more!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Adam Sandler	Jim,Hollywood Stepmom,Wall Street Stepdaughter,Little League Announcer,Little League Announcer's Grandma,Cute Teenage Boy
Drew Barrymore	Lauren
Joel McHale	Mark
Kevin Nealon	Eddy
Wendi McLendon-Covey	Jen
Kyle Red Silverstein	Tyler
Shaquille O'Neal	Doug
Dan Patrick	Dick
Bella Thorne	Hilary
Terry Crews	Nickens
Braxton Beckham	Brendan
Jessica Lowe	Ginger
Alyvia Alyn Lind	Lou
Emma Fuhrmann	Espn
Lauren Lapkus	Tracy
Abdoulaye N'Gom	Mfana
Zak Henri	Jake
Alexis Arquette	Georgina
Katheryn Cain	British Stepmom
Susan Yeagley	Southern Stepmom
Aimee Goldsmith	Wall Street Stepmom
Mary Pat Gleason	Pharmacy Cashier
Dale Steyn	Dale
Allen Covert	220 Tom,Dick's Kid #1,Face Painting Girl
Tim Herlihy	Basketball Dad
Chris April	Safety Director
Vivian Shabalala	Thathoo Harmony Group
Zenzozenkosi Dubazane	Thathoo Harmony Group
Albert Mhlongo	Thathoo Harmony Group
Josette Eales	Massage Instructor
Anna Colwell	Bubbles
Marissa Raisor	Bethany
Ashley Pike	Britney
Casey Luckey	Bunny
Jonathan Loughran	Umpire
Christopher Titone	Actor
Rob Moran	Baseball Dad
Michael Buscemi	Baseball Dad
Max Karz	Little League Pitcher,Client's Son,Client's Son
Jackie Goldston	Closet Client
Simon Sibonelo Vilakazi	Waiter
Gregg Bright	Wall Street Husband
Nikki Walker	African Storyteller
Cullen Deuce Tonry	Little Boy
Dambuza Mdledle	African Barber
Zwelithin Mathebula	Villager
Ishmael Kakasa	Villager,Villager
Mikayla Park	Kissing Woman in Boat
J.D. Donaruma	Standard Fench Coach
Robert Harvey	Baseball Fan
Bill Romanowski	Baseball Fan
Rupert Gregson-Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Ivan Menchell

Clare Sera

Frank Coraci	Director
Ivan Menchell	Screenwriter
Clare Sera	Screenwriter
Mike Karz	Producer
Adam Sandler	Producer
Jack Giarraputo	Producer
Barry Bernardi	Executive Producer
Josie Rosen	Executive Producer
Tim Herlihy	Executive Producer
Allen Covert	Executive Producer
Steven Koren	Executive Producer
Steven Mnuchin	Executive Producer
James Packer	Executive Producer
Christopher September	Special Effects
Hennie Jooste	Special Effects
Leanne Mullon	Special Effects
Mark Hyland	Special Effects
Peter Belcher	Camera Operator
Barbara J. McCarthy	Casting
Angela Demo	Casting
Christa Schamberger	Casting
Conrad Kuhne	Sound Mixer
Richard Kite	Sound Mixer
Grant Hulley	Stunts
Marc Glassman	Sound Effects
Tim Rakoczy	Sound Effects
Ulrika Akander	Sound Effects
Gregg Barbanell	Sound Effects
Brian Didsbury	Sound Effects
Russell Farmarco	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

It took the love of Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer to give Adam Sandler's idiot man-child persona a dash of maturity. Being the career-savvy star that he is, Sandler smartly teamed with Barrymore again for 50 First Dates, a deeper movie that ended up being an even bigger box-office success than their first outing. Blended, which reteams the pair with Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, succeeds largely because of the duo's established (and still readily present) chemistry. The movie opens with a disastrous blind date between Jim (Sandler) and Lauren (Barrymore). He's the manager of a sporting-goods store who is still reeling from his wife's death and the difficulty of raising three daughters, and she has her own business organizing people's closets (yes, you read that right) and is raising two sons with little help from her selfish ex-husband (Joel McHale). His boss Dick and her business partner Jen (Wendi McLendon-Covey) are dating, and Dick had planned to take a weeklong trip to a South African resort in order to introduce her to his five children; however, Jen freaks out and refuses to go. Jim and Lauren sweep in and separately buy the vacation from their respective associates for cheap, with the result that these two feuding families find themselves in an exotic paradise together. While there, Jim's eldest daughter Hilary (Bella Thorne) crushes on the teenage son of their dinner-table companions, his middle daughter Espn (Emma Fuhrmann) -- pronounced "ESS-pin" and named for dad's favorite network, natch -- continues to grieve for her mother, and the youngest kid simply acts adorable. Meanwhile, Lauren's eldest son deals with his anger about his parents' divorce, and her younger son learns to hit a baseball. And of course, the parents slowly get to know each other, and discover that each has something to offer the other's children. The movie's tone is quite odd: It's an unusual blend of conservatism and progressiveness. It wants to be a family-friendly PG-13 film, so it's loaded with jokes about sex that are often a discomforting combination of bawdy and tame -- there will be some awkward explanations afterward for any parents who take their tweens to this. However, the central theme of the movie -- that Jim and Lauren have to learn to let go of the past for the good of their children -- is a wholehearted endorsement of the importance of the family unit, even if the clan has taken a Brady Bunch-like path to togetherness. What's most surprising about Blended is that, even after an hour of almost-in-bad-taste jokes, Coraci pulls off a couple of credible dramatic scenes. When Jim has a heart-to-heart with Espn about her mother, it's a touching scene thanks to Emma Fuhrmann's graceful performance and Sandler's underplaying. It works better than it has a right to, and the same can be said for the movie as a whole. Perhaps some of the credit can go to co-screenwriters Clare Sera and Ivan Menchell, neither of whom has written for Sandler before. It's tempting to assume that they gave the film enough emotional heft -- not a lot, since this is a comedy -- that it holds together even as Sandler and company fill the frame with fourth-wall-crumbling looks at the camera, a terribly edited parasailing sequence featuring stock footage of African animals, and monkeys playing musical instruments during a romantic dinner between the two leads. Sandler and Barrymore are funny when they bicker, but they bring out an irresistible sweetness in each other during their tender scenes. No matter how stupid the film gets, it never fully extinguishes our hope that these two end up together. Throw in amusing turns from Terry Crews as a very enthusiastic singer and Kevin Nealon as a man enjoying his buxom new trophy wife, as well as quality work from Thorne and Fuhrmann, and Blended winds up being yet another example of a Sandler and Barrymore comedy that's better than expected.