Reply #18: Spoiled for you here:

[tjdee]

It wasn't a typical "Billy Madison" film, though it was marketed as one.

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She has short term memory loss, and they handle it pretty realistically. Toward the end they put her in a mentalish institution because it is clear she can't be with Sandler or live with her family. Being with her is keeping Sandler from doing his animal work in Alaska, for example.

While she's there, she starts humming (which is symbolic in the film), and even though she doesn't remember Adam Sandler, she paints 'someone' (who's really him). When he realizes that her heart remembers him even if her head doesn't, Sandler goes to get her out of the mentalish institution.

The last scene is her watching a video of her life (they show her one every morning)--turns out Sandler married her. She looks out the window and she's in Alaska. So he did have his future--AND, he goes "do you want to meet your daughter?". So they had a future, and it is so sad when she meets her daughter.

She doesn't magically lose her illness, which is what I expected. Very sweetly done.