Bedtime Stories – GC Movie Review

Rated: PG - for some mild rude humor and mild language.
Genre: Comedies, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Theatrical Release, Family (General), Storytelling, Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: Dec 25, 2008 Worldwide
Starring: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler, Jonathan Pryce
Director: Adam Shankman
Screenwriter: Matt Lopez, Tim Herlihy
Story: Matt Lopez
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Andrew Gunn
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Run Time: 95 minutes

Synopsis: An adventure comedy starring ADAM SANDLER as Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter's life upside down. --© Walt Disney Pictures

Quietly, we are all dreamers and voyeurs of other people lives. We see people, we watch movies and we read books. They give us a birds eye view of what we could possibly be missing out on. We have graciously been given lives that we, literally, sometimes don’t want. Let’s be real people. I do believe that if we could, at any moment, read a fairytale or be offered an option to have our lives become that story, we would do it in a heartbeat. Why? Because fairytales have happy endings and those endings seem to be missing us. Contemplating our lives, how they turned out and what we’d like for them to be oftentimes makes us sad; almost regretful. 

In new the family friendly holiday comedy “Bedtime Stories,” Adam Sandler is quirky, but committed, hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson, who has eyes for a brighter future. A secretly aspiring hotelier, Skeeter is living the legacy of his father, played by (Jonathan Pryce - cameo scenes only) who once owned a Hollywood motel and was forced out by wealthy germophobe, Mr. Nottingham (Richard Griffiths). The Nottingham high rise, which Skeeter works for, currently occupies hi father’s previous hotel address.