Bedtime Stories (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bedtime Stories |
| Original title | Bedtime Stories |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adam Shankman |
| script |
Matt Lopez , Tim Herlihy |
| production |
Adam Sandler , Andrew Gunn , Jack Giarraputo |
| music | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Michael Barrett |
| cut |
Tom Costain , Michael Tronick |
| occupation | |
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Bedtime Stories is a film made in 2008 , in which Adam Shankman is directing and Adam Sandler starred with his production company Happy Madison took over part of the production. It was Sandler's first film on Walt Disney Pictures . The film opened in German cinemas on December 25, 2008.
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Marty Bronson runs a hotel with his two children, Skeeter and Wendy. Every evening, the father tells his children made up bedtime stories , which especially Skeeter inspire again and again. Marty is a committed hotelier, but a bad businessman, which makes him heavily in debt. Successful businessman Barry Nottingham offers Marty a way out of debt by offering to buy Marty's hotel. Since the father does not want to give up his family business, he hesitates at first, but finally sells it after he makes Nottingham promise to hand over the management to his son Skeeter in adulthood.
25 years later, the family hotel has become a luxury hotel in which Skeeter works as a caretaker and “girl for everything”. But he has never given up hope that one day he will be able to take over the hotel.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its hotel chain, Nottingham announces that it wants to expand the hotel again and also appoints a new manager. Kendall, the lover of his daughter Violet, is to take over the management of the new luxury hotel with immediate effect. Skeeter can't believe the injustice. He is invited by his sister, Wendy, whom he has not seen in over four years. Wendy is now a mother of two to Patrick and Bobby and has also recently been divorced. Since the elementary school where she is the principal is due to be closed and demolished, she has to travel to Arizona and apply for a new post. She asks Skeeter to look after her two children for a week. During the day, Wendy's best friend Jill would take care of the children, at night Skeeter would have to take care of it. More out of protest than joy, Skeeter accepts, even if he doesn't really know what to do with Wendy's friend Jill or the children.
Desperate when Skeeter puts the children to bed on the first night, he begins to imitate his father and tells his niece and nephew a bedtime story. The children, who only know very special and educationally valuable stories from their mother, are very enthusiastic and begin to tell Skeeter's story with childlike imagination. The following day, Skeeter experiences events that are at first inexplicable to him, but which are later to coincide with the additions made by the children in his stories. Skeeter suddenly understands that whatever the children add to his stories actually happens that way. Only the interpretation, in order to adjust to the expected events, causes Skeeter initially difficulties. He immediately tries to influence the children's supplements in such a way that they always find a positive turn for him.
With the addition of the children, Skeeter has the chance to get the job of managing director of the hotel in a competition for the new hotel motto. Again, he tries to influence the children's stories in such a way that he becomes the head of his father's company. But no sooner is he appointed boss than he is fired again due to a misinterpretation. After it turns out that the new luxury hotel is to be built on the property on which the school is located, Patrick and Bobby go and Wendy's principal, Jill and the children turn away from him. But with the help of his father, who communicates with him as a narrator from the afterlife, Skeeter comes up with an idea to save the school from the upcoming demolition. He uses his connection from his school days to the head of the building supervision and succeeds in having Nottingham's demolition permit withdrawn. At the same time, however, he also ensures that Nottingham receives a different and better property for its hotel plans. When Nottingham cannot prevent the demolition, Skeeter and Jill make their way to school with a stolen motorcycle to stop the demolition and to announce that the school will remain open.
Withdrawn from the hotel business, Skeeter founds a family motel and gives it his father's name. Kendall is employed by Skeeter as a waitress. Shortly before the end credits, we learn that Skeeter and Jill have married and that Nottingham is now the school doctor in the children's school.
production
Director Adam Shankman describes the role that plays Adam Sandler, as a Cinder-fella (about: Ash guy ) and added, "... that he, like Han Solo 's".
Awards
The film was nominated in the United States in 2009 for the Kids Choice Award for Most Popular Film and Adam Sandler for Most Popular Actor.
Reviews
“[...] Walt Disney [waits] again with a highly charming and in the truest sense of the word fantastic comedy for young and old. Adam Sandler [...] is the perfect cast for the quirky, apparently unsuccessful Skeeter Bronson, whose imagination, however, sweetens everyday life for him and his family. Bedtime Stories is a declaration of love to the childish imagination, believed to be lost in life, which, once sparked, can only enrich people. "
“Adam Sandler with the handbrake on. Fans are disappointed, children laugh happily. "
"Conventional Disney Christmas film with a classic fairytale storyline, which leads the protagonists through space, time and various genres, uses this for all sorts of mummies and film parodies and relies entirely on the charm of its main actor."
Web links
- Bedtime Stories at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bedtime Stories at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Bedtime Stories . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 502 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Bedtime Stories . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Dave McNary: Sandler to star in "Bedtime Stories" , Variety . April 3, 2007. Accessed March 9, 2008.
- ^ Quoted from First Look: Behind the scenes of Hollywood's biggest projects. In: Entertainment Weekly. 1025, December 12, 2008, p. 9.
- ↑ kino.de
- ↑ bild.de
- ↑ Bedtime Stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 22, 2015 .