Bedtime Stories

Thursday 18 December 2008 7:38PM (view full episode)

Adam Sandler plays a maintenance guy in a luxury hotel who gets his big chance when there's a competition to come up with a new décor theme, and win the manager's job. He mumbles his way through this with his usual schtick, an underachiever with a chip on his shoulder that I didn't warm to, though the children in this film find him hilarious.

He has to babysit his niece and nephew and tells them bedtime stories that are thinly veiled workplace revenge fantasies, mostly about his snobby superior and competition rival Kendall (Guy Pearce). With the kids' input, the stories magically start to come true. The message here is that your future is only as big as your dream, but I'm not rooting for Sandler on his road to redemption.


Jason Di Rosso