Bedtime Stories

The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a hotel handyman who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie ...more

Bedtime Stories proves that Adam Sandler can make anyone laugh. In his first proper "kids" movie, Sandler successfully dispenses a new brand of family-appropriate comedy. The film is hilarious in an often subdued, smart fashion, but it's lively enough to keep the kids cracking up as well. Seguing into family films is seamless for Sandler, and his performance illustrates his versatility as both an actor and a comedian. At the same time, Sandler doesn't deviate too much from the style of ...more

Adam Sandler became a comic star by mining arrested development for laughs. He found variations to his attack: there is the infantile Sandler of Billy Madison, and the sweet, innocent Sandler of The Wedding Singer. However, Bedtime Stories marks the first time he's tried to make a child-friendly movie. The tale begins with Skeeter Bronson, a young boy, helping his father (Jonathan Pryce) run a modest L.A. motel, until the father sells the failing enterprise to British businessman Barry ...more