Bedtime Stories (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Adam Shankman

Escritores (WGA):

Matt Lopez (screenplay) and
Tim Herlihy (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 diciembre 2008 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Familia | Fantasía

Frase comercial:

Whatever they dream up... he has to survive.

Plot:

A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true. |

Plot Keywords:

Bedtime Story | Handyman | Arrested Development | Guinea Pig | Gumball

Premios:

4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

It woke me up.

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

Cuentos que no son cuentos (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Cuentos que no son cuento (Peru) [es]
Más allá de los sueños (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild rude humor and mild language.

Duración:

99 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:PG (certificate #44892) | Ireland:PG | Australia:G | South Korea:Todo | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:6 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Germany:o.Al. | New Zealand:PG | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Hong Kong:IIA | Taiwan:GP | South Africa:PG | Sweden:Btl | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Finland:K-7 | Mexico:A

Locaciones de Filmación:

Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Compañía:

Gunn Films

Trivialidades:

The first film produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions that received a PG rating.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: Near the beginning of the movie when Skeeter goes to his sister's house for her daughter Bobbi's birthday, Skeeter mistakes Patrick to be Bobbi, presumably due to the "boyish" sounding name. However when Wendy's best friend Jill shows up and is talking to Skeeter outside of the house, the present she has with her is wrapped in very "boyish" wrapping paper with basketballs and footballs all over it.

Citas:

Skeeter Bronson: His name was Mr. Underappreciated.
Patrick: What is underdemeciated?
Skeeter Bronson: What?
Patrick: Underdemeciated?
Skeeter Bronson: That's right, I forgot, you're 6, well his name was Sir Fix-a-lot.

Conexiones de Película:

References Cinderella (1950)

Banda de Sonido:

Hawaiian Lei

It woke me up.

"What if the stories you told came to life?" Bedtime Stories Promo

Having suffered through Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), I was prepared to suffer through Bedtime Stories, his offering in the 2008 Christmas glut of fine movies that have few for kids. Sandler rules: This is one of the best children/adult stories this year, an ironic twist on romantic and heroic tales told from children's point of view through the masterful child/adult lens of an underplaying, child-friendly master.

Sandler's Skeeter Bronson takes care of his niece and nephew for a week. Of course he hasn't a clue because he hasn't seen them in four years and his job as super-maintenance man at the Sunny Vista Hotel in Las Vegas consumes most of his time and energy. He's the usual Sandler sweet-hearted semi-loser with reserves of child-like sympathies ready to be released.

The conceit is that after telling the humorous tales with the kids' ample and creative input at bedtime, the story elements become real in real life, altered to fit the modern context (e.g., a rain of gumballs actually happens the next day, explainable by a candy truck spilling its contents over a bridge onto Sandler). In this ingenious way, the film recalls the Wizard-of-Oz trick of making real in Kansas what Dorothy had experienced in the Emerald City.

There is nothing deep about this delight, just a small satire of a society that may be losing its sense of wonder and fun in order to bow at the altars of nutrition and commercialism. Not bad for a film I thought would be another Sander nodder. It woke me up to the joys of imagination and love.

Happy holidays.