Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Adam Sandler | ... | Skeeter Bronson | |
Keri Russell | ... | Jill | |
Guy Pearce | ... | Kendall | |
Russell Brand | ... | Mickey | |
Richard Griffiths | ... | Barry Nottingham | |
Teresa Palmer | ... | Violet Nottingham | |
Lucy Lawless | ... | Aspen | |
Courteney Cox | ... | Wendy | |
Jonathan Morgan Heit | ... | Patrick | |
Laura Ann Kesling | ... | Bobbi | |
Jonathan Pryce | ... | Marty Bronson | |
Nick Swardson | ... | Engineer | |
Kathryn Joosten | ... | Mrs. Dixon | |
Allen Covert | ... | Ferrari Guy | |
Carmen Electra | ... | Hot Girl |
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... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I was expecting another tacky platitude, similar to the unwatchable "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", the unacceptable "Night at the Museum", the sugary "Charlotte's Web", and sundry other brainless and uninspired productions of the recent years which seem to bank on the medieval idea that children would be some gullible half-morons willing to swallow even the most awkward smoke-and-shadows games... Well, NO! "Bedtime Stories" is NO bedtime story - it's not meant to put anyone to stuporous sleep, being instead witty, energizing and fully enjoyable! The script is intelligent, with a solid structure and flexible articulations, and the directing, more than adequate: precise to a point, expressive, spirited and brilliant. In many senses, it reminded me the well-being that I've always been owing to the Zemeckis' "Back to the Future" trilogy: a movie that simply makes you feel full of buoyancy! I hate such politically correct (read: efficiently brainwashing) labels as "family movies", so I state it clearly: it's a good movie for children of all ages - from 3 to 83!