Bedtime Stories (2008) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	December 25, 2008
On DVD:	April 7, 2009
Genre:	Family, Comedy
Director:	Adam Shankman
Writer:	Matt Lopez, Tim Herlihy
Cast:	Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler, Jonathan Pryce
Studio:	Walt Disney Pictures
Official site:	disney.com/bedtimestories
Running Time:	95 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG for some mild rude humor and mild language

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....

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When I first heard about Bedtime Stories, it sounded like a disaster. You take Adam Sandler, the bane of parents everywhere for delivering inappropriate and idiotic humor to their children, and put him in a PG-rated Disney flick, thus circumcising away what makes him so popular among his fan base: I smell mega-flop. But with a Christmas-time release date and some imagination, Bedtime Stories turned into a surprise hit, and deservedly so.

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