Bedtime Stories (Film)

Bedtime Stories is a movie from 2008, in which Adam Shankman is directing and starring Adam Sandler and his production company Happy Madison took over a part of the production. It is Sandler's first film with Walt Disney Pictures.

Action

Marty Bronson runs a hotel with his two children Skeeter and Wendy. Every evening, the father tells his children conceived bedtime stories, mainly Skeeter inspire again and again. Marty is a true dedicated hotelier, but a bad businessman, so he inflicted his hotel strongly. The successful businessman Barry Nottingham offers Marty a way out of the debt trap by offering to buy Marty's hotel. Since the father 's family but do not want to give up, he hesitates, but finally sold but after he takes the promise of Nottingham, his son Skeeter in adulthood to transfer the management.

25 years later is from the Family Hotel is a luxury hotel has become, in the Skeeter as a janitor and " gofer " works. He has never abandoned the hope of being able to take over the hotel one day.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its hotel chain announced Nottingham that he wants to increase the hotel again and this has also appointed a new managing director. Kendall, the lover of his daughter Violet, is to take over the leadership of the new luxury hotels now. Skeeter can not believe the injustice. He is invited by his sister Wendy, who he has not seen for more than four years. Wendy is now a mother of two from Patrick and Bobby and is also recently divorced. Since the primary school, where she is director, is to be closed and demolished, she has to travel to Arizona and to apply for a new post. She asks Skeeter to watch for a week on her two children. During the day, Wendy's best friend Jill would take care of the children, at night this would have to take on Skeeter. More in protest as joy takes Skeeter, even if he really can start something neither with Wendy's friend Jill still with the children.

As Skeeter puts the kids to bed on the first night, he starts out of desperation to emulate his father, and tells his niece and nephew a bedtime story. The children who know of her mother's very special and educationally valuable stories are inspired and begin mitzuerzählen Skeeter's story with childlike fantasy. The following day, Skeeter experienced events that are inexplicable only for him, but is intended to cover later with the additions of the children in his stories. Skeeter suddenly understands that everything that add children to his stories actually happened that way. Only the interpretation in order to adapt to the expected events, Skeeter is difficult at first. He tried once to influence the additions to the children so that they will always find a positive spin for him.

By supplementing the children Skeeter gets the chance to get transferred to the post of Managing Director of the hotel in a race to the new hotel motto. This time he tried to influence children's stories so that he is chief of his father's company. But as soon as he is appointed chief, he is already fired by a misinterpretation again. After it turns out that the new luxury hotel to be built on the land on which the school is to go to the Patrick and Bobby and is the Director Wendy, Jill and the kids turn away from him. But with help from his father, who communicates with him as a narrator from beyond the grave, Skeeter comes an idea to protect the school before the upcoming demolition. He uses his connection from the school to the director of the building inspection and ensures that Nottingham is removed from the demolition permit. At the same time he also makes sure that Nottingham gets a different and better land for its hotel plans. As Nottingham blowing up but can not prevent Skeeter and Jill curl up with a stolen motorcycle on the way to school, to stop the demolition and to announce that the school remains.

Withdrawn from the hospitality industry, Skeeter founds a family motel and gives him the name of his father. Kendall is employed by Skeeter as a service force. Just before the credits roll we learn yet that Skeeter and Jill got married and now that Nottingham is a school doctor in school children.

Production

Director Adam Shankman describes the role that Adam Sandler plays as a Cinder - fella (about: Ash guy) and adds that "... he is like Han Solo "

Awards

The film was nominated in the USA in 2009, among other things for the Kids Choice Award as the most popular movie and Adam Sandler as the most popular actor.

Reviews

" [ ... ] Walt Disney [ waiting ] again with a most charming and fantastic in the truest sense of the word comedy for young and old. Adam Sandler [ ... ] is the perfect choice for the quirky, seemingly unsuccessful in life Skeeter Bronson, but whose imagination him and his family sweetens everyday life. "Bedtime Stories" is a declaration of love to the lost in life believed childlike imagination, which is, she once kindled, people only can enrich more. "

" Adam Sandler with the handbrake on. Fans are disappointed, children laughing happily. "

" Conventional Disney Christmas movie with classic fairy tale story that leads the protagonists through space, time and a variety of genres, it uses for all kinds of masquerade and movie parodies and thereby completely relies on the charm of its leading man. "

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