Feast of Film

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...

Adam Sandler has hit his eighth straight No. 1 weekend opening in the US with Click . Sandler's formula is hard to fault - nice guy who's rough around the edges with gorgeous wife or girlfriend has an adventure and learns that family matters most. If we define this plotline as the 'Sandler genre', then Click is its ultimate form. The adventure is lots of fun, the family moments are heartwarming, funny and at times emotionally very touching (with Henry Winkler as his father, it's hard not to get teary - the Fonz got old), and gorgeous wife - Kate Beckinsale . The plot: Adam Sandler plays Michael Newman, married to Donna (Beckinsale), with 2 children - Ben and Samantha. He's focused on advancing his career (to better provide for his family) and sees pretty much everything else as a distraction and wants a simple way to control his complex life. In walks Morty ( Christopher Walken ), who Michael finds working away in the 'Beyond' section of a Bed, Bath ...