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Bedtime Stories

  • 2008
  • PG
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
104K
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Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Jonathan Morgan Heit, and Laura Ann Kesling in Bedtime Stories (2008)
This is the first theatrical trailer for Bedtime Stories, directed by Adam Shankman.
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A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.

  • Director
    • Adam Shankman
  • Writers
    • Matt Lopez
    • Tim Herlihy
  • Stars
    • Adam Sandler
    • Keri Russell
    • Courteney Cox
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    104K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Adam Shankman
    • Writers
      • Matt Lopez
      • Tim Herlihy
    • Stars
      • Adam Sandler
      • Keri Russell
      • Courteney Cox
    • 155User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 33Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Adam Sandler
    Adam Sandler
    • Skeeter Bronson
    Keri Russell
    Keri Russell
    • Jill
    Courteney Cox
    Courteney Cox
    • Wendy
    Guy Pearce
    Guy Pearce
    • Kendall
    Russell Brand
    Russell Brand
    • Mickey
    Richard Griffiths
    Richard Griffiths
    • Barry Nottingham
    Teresa Palmer
    Teresa Palmer
    • Violet Nottingham
    Lucy Lawless
    Lucy Lawless
    • Aspen
    Jonathan Morgan Heit
    Jonathan Morgan Heit
    • Patrick
    Laura Ann Kesling
    Laura Ann Kesling
    • Bobbi
    Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce
    • Marty Bronson
    Nick Swardson
    Nick Swardson
    • Engineer
    Kathryn Joosten
    Kathryn Joosten
    • Mrs. Dixon
    Allen Covert
    Allen Covert
    • Ferrari Guy
    Carmen Electra
    Carmen Electra
    • Hot Girl
    Tim Herlihy
    Tim Herlihy
    • Young Barry Nottingham
    Thomas Hoffman
    • Young Skeeter
    Abigail Droeger
    Abigail Droeger
    • Young Wendy
    • (as Abigail Leone Droeger)
    • Director
      • Adam Shankman
    • Writers
      • Matt Lopez
      • Tim Herlihy
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    User reviews155

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    8cnet

    Good family fun...

    We went to this movie with my two kids (ages 7 and 10, both girls), my Brother-in-law and his wife and their two kids (ages six and nine, both boys.) We were a bit apprehensive about this due to the poor critics ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. (Frankly, the critics gave it abysmal ratings and I almost avoided this entirely because of those ratings.) And perhaps they were right. But I know that despite the critics we all enjoyed it greatly. Maybe it was just the mood we were all in or the good meal we just had before the movie but we laughed throughout. Obviously there is no high-brow humor here or social commentary to be made. It's just a movie who's sole purpose is simply to have fun.

    Cookie cutter? Perhaps. In fact, in retrospect I'm sure it was. But it was still enjoyable.

    So if your looking for something more than what you see in the previews, forget it. It isn't happening. This movie makes no pretenses about what it is exactly about: good fun. If your looking for anything other than that, you're going to be disappointed.

    On the down side, some of the best moments were captured in the previews. While this certainly isn't the first movie to this (not the last I'm sure), it always seems to take something away from the experience of watching the movie. But there were plenty of other twists and turns in this movie that helped minimize the effect this had on the overall viewing experience.

    Overall this movie was a delight for kids both big and small in our group. You'll enjoy it if you watch it with a child's eye...and not those big ones Bugsy has!!!
    9pawanpunjabithewriter

    Ticks all the Script Writing Boxes

    Bedtime Stories' script is magnificently written. It has huge character arcs, tent poles, and humor. It can't get better. Only, it feels, at times, it overdoes a little. Overdoes the character arcs, the fiction. It, sometimes, becomes not believable, which is the only complaint I have from the Writer. I can even count the many times it has overdone such moments.

    Now, Adam Sandler, has done a remarkable job. He stands tall, gives his best and delivers yet another amazing characrer with a spectacular movie.

    Of course, family movies can get way better than this one is, however, it keeps gripping the audience right till the end. Nonetheless, the climax is exceptional too.
    JohnDeSando

    It woke me up.

    "What if the stories you told came to life?" Bedtime Stories Promo

    Having suffered through Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), I was prepared to suffer through Bedtime Stories, his offering in the 2008 Christmas glut of fine movies that have few for kids. Sandler rules: This is one of the best children/adult stories this year, an ironic twist on romantic and heroic tales told from children's point of view through the masterful child/adult lens of an underplaying, child-friendly master.

    Sandler's Skeeter Bronson takes care of his niece and nephew for a week. Of course he hasn't a clue because he hasn't seen them in four years and his job as super-maintenance man at the Sunny Vista Hotel in Las Vegas consumes most of his time and energy. He's the usual Sandler sweet-hearted semi-loser with reserves of child-like sympathies ready to be released.

    The conceit is that after telling the humorous tales with the kids' ample and creative input at bedtime, the story elements become real in real life, altered to fit the modern context (e.g., a rain of gumballs actually happens the next day, explainable by a candy truck spilling its contents over a bridge onto Sandler). In this ingenious way, the film recalls the Wizard-of-Oz trick of making real in Kansas what Dorothy had experienced in the Emerald City.

    There is nothing deep about this delight, just a small satire of a society that may be losing its sense of wonder and fun in order to bow at the altars of nutrition and commercialism. Not bad for a film I thought would be another Sander nodder. It woke me up to the joys of imagination and love.

    Happy holidays.
    7doomedmac

    Actually funny

    Say what you will about MOST Adam Sandler movies, Bedtime Story is actually pretty funny. Give it a shot.
    6LazySod

    Slightly funny and moralistic

    Skeeter is a guy that worked hard all his life for a hotel his dad used to own. He's got high hopes to gain full control over it some day as that was promised to his father by the new owner. Many years have gone by and he's still in a low position though.

    Due to circumstances Skeeter has to take care of his niece and nephew for a short while and the young kids prove to be a bit of a challenge for him, but he manages to do it. They demand a bed time story every night, and he gives it to them. He makes up stories himself, but soon all kind of weird things start happening.

    And so on. The film rolls on like any typical Disney film. There's the backing story of a "hero" having to "rescue" some people in distress, there's the villain and the regular injustice. Added to that is the funny implications of what happens when a made up story becomes true. This addition gives this film some good laughs, and all in all it works out well enough, worthy of cinema time but not much more than that.

    6 out of 10 gum-ball rain showers

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    • Trivia
      The bulldog shown in the movie is Adam Sandler's beloved pet, Motzaball.
    • Goofs
      It is mentioned that Skeeter lives in Room 109, but above the door, the number is 111.
    • Quotes

      Luau Waitress: Kona coffee ice cream.

      Skeeter Bronson: Yeah? What's the catch? You're gonna light it on fire? 'Cause I'm on to you, honey.

      Luau Waitress: No fire. It would melt. Just take the ice cream and a chill pill.

    • Crazy credits
      The Walt Disney logo turns into a pop-up page from a storybook.
    • Connections
      Edited from The Trammps: Disco Inferno (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      Hokey Pokey
      Written by Taft Baker, Larry Laprise, Charles Macak

      Performed by Ray Anthony and His Orchestra

      Courtesy of Capitol Records

      Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 2008 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Australia
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cuentos que no son cuento
    • Filming locations
      • Castello Di Amorosa Winery, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Pictures
      • Happy Madison Productions
      • Gunn Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $80,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $110,101,975
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $27,450,296
      • Dec 28, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $212,874,864
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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