Synopsis
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?
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Cast
- Adam SandlerSkeeter Bronson
- Keri RussellJill
- Guy PearceKendall
- Courteney CoxWendy
- Lucy LawlessAspen
- Carmen ElectraHot Girl
- Jonathan PryceMarty Bronson
- Richard GriffithsBarry Nottingham
- Teresa PalmerViolet Nottingham
- Russell BrandMickey
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
"Stories" makes a better Christmas movie than those generic comedies manufactured this time of year. The hits-to-misses ratio for its gags is above average, the sentimentality is kept in check and the film plays well to its audience. - 70
Variety
With Bedtime Stories, Sandler has delivered on his promise to make a movie his kids can enjoy. What's more, he's managed to do so without alienating his core audience. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a harmless and pleasant Disney comedy and one of only three family movies playing over the holidays. - 50
USA Today
The fantasy segments, played up in trailers, get bogged down amid the ho-hum tale of a loser making good. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Clean enough to fly the Walt Disney Pictures flag, yet it's full of bimbos and cleavage and shots of Adam Sandler getting kicked in the shins by a dwarf. - 40
Empire
More ho-hum than ho ho ho. - 40
New York Daily News
Sandler's shambling Yogi Bear-ness will be the big appeal to holiday-vacation audiences. - 25
Rolling Stone
The shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler's line to these children of divorce: "I'm like the stink on your feet — I'll always be there."
