Bedtime Stories (Movie Review)

INTERVIEWS with Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand, and Adam Shankman

As a handyman at the hotel his father used to own, Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) spends his days changing light bulbs and competing with the hotel’s smarmy manager (Guy Pearce) for the attention of the new owner’s beautiful, hard-partying daughter, Violet (Theresa Palmer). When his sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks Skeeter to babysit her kids for a week while she’s out of town, Skeeter entertains his niece and nephew with elaborate, original bedtime stories that transport them to exotic locales, including ancient Greece, the Wild West and outer space. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it’s the kids’ unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down. Full of imaginative special effects and good-natured hilarity, Bedtime Stories is a winning combination of comedy and adventure.

A hotel maintenance man named Skeeter(Adam Sandler) wants to be the hotel manager after he was promised the position when he was a young boy. His father Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce) loved the hotel industry but, wasn’t a very good businessman and had to sell his hotel to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths). Years later Skeeter finds himself being left behind on being promoted to hotel manager even though it was promised to him when Nottingham bought the hotel from Bronson. Skeeters sister Wendy (Courney Cox) is a divorced elementary school principal with two young children. She has a job interview out of town and asks Skeeter to watch the children at night and asks her friend Jill (Keri Russell) to watch them during the day. While she is away, the adventure for this movie takes off when Skeeter tells the children bedtime stories and elements of the stories come true the next day. After realizing what is happening, Skeeter tries to use this to his advantage but it turns out that it isn’t what he says that comes true but what the children say is what actually happens. While working this situation, he gets the kids to lead a story in which he would get a chance at the manager’s job.


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