
In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he has grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the ... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he has grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the handyman of his hotel. The general manager is the arrogant Kendall, who is engaged with the shallow Barry's daughter Violet Nottingham. When the Webster Elementary School where Wendy is the principal will be closed to be demolished, she needs to travel to Arizona for a job interview. Wendy asks her friend Jill, who is teacher in the same school, to watch her son Patrick and her daughter Bobbi during the day and Skeeter to watch them during the night. Skeeter meets the estranged kids with his best friend Mickey and makes up bedtime stories to help them to sleep but the kids add details to the stories, changing their endings. Soon Skeeter realizes that the plot of the stories are coming true and affecting his life. Meanwhile Barry Nottingham decides to give a change to Skeeter to dispute the manager position in his new hotel with Kendall like in one of his stories. But Skeeter has told to his nephew and his niece that stories do not have happy endings.
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| TeletextVictor OlliverPart live action, part animation, Bedtime Stories is relentlessly silly, kept buoyant by Sandler's zany cheer. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonA likable but thin Disney vehicle for Adam Sandler that will play best for preteens. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyAdam Sandler tones down his normally racy humor effectively, but the lightweight story is a one-note sidestep. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderIt takes two bad genres -- live-action Disney dreck and lowest-common-denominator Sandler humor -- and blends them into one unfunny mess. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteThat Skeeter benefits from what he does for his niece and nephew is an object lesson in responsibility and benevolence -- and it blesses the audience, too. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielA fun bit of escapism that's even tender in spots. |
| About.comRebecca MurrayBedtime Stories just makes me wish I'd put the hour and a half of mine it wasted to better use napping. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfSandler's mischievous heart just doesn't belong in a straight-up kid zone like Bedtime Stories, especially one with a script that doesn't elevate beyond the expected. |
| Urban CinefileLouise KellerIf you like Adam Sandler's loud and bawdy style (or lack of it), you will warm to this lively and undemanding fable that reminds us we are limited only by our imagination |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasBedtime Stories isn't Sandler's best movie, nor is it his worst; it's just perfectly harmless fun that the kids will probably love just a little bit more than their parents. |