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Bedtime Stories

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Adam Sandler without the smutty jokes and crude humour - and funnier for it. Yes, he did it to an extent in Click , but with Bedtime Stories he has the 'Walt Disney' shingle and produces a very enjoyable movie that you can take children to see without fear. The plot: Skeeter Bronson (Sandler) is the son of wonderfully imaginative but no-so-financially astute hotel owner Marty Bronson ( Jonathan Pryce ), who is forced to sell his hotel to ruthless hotelier Barry Nottingham ( Richard Griffiths ). He does, however, manage to extract a promise that if Skeeter applied himself he would be given the chance to run the hotel one day. Needless to say, Nottingham reneges on the deal and Skeeter is relegated to maintenance of the massive hotel that is built on the site. However, one day Skeeter's school principal sister Wendy ( Courteney Cox ) tells him that her school is being shut down and that she needs him to babysit his niece and nephew while she goes to Arizona to look for a ne

The Day The Earth Stood Still

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The above image shows an audience member who just happens to resemble the lead actor, whose vitals signs are measured, as are all other viewers, so that medical assistance can be rushed to them as the film methodically sends them into a manic state of eco-insanity. Keanu Reeves stars in two sorts of films: Good and Crap. This is the latter and should not be allowed to draw on the good name of the original , directed by Robert Wise . The plot: Mysterious glowing spheres land around Earth, the largest of which touches down in Central Park, New York, lit up like a '70's area disco globe. The US government rounds up a team of scientists ahead of its landing, one of whom is Helen Benson ( Jennifer Connelly ). Out of the Central Park sphere - now surrounded by military and police, who are emphasised to be incredibly poorly coordinated (despite the previously demonstrated massive coordination effort to assemble the science team) emerges Klaatu. He approaches Helen and is - like the