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Bedtime Stories is a 2008 American family-fantasy-comedy film directed by Adam Shankman that stars Adam Sandler in his first appearance in a family-oriented film. Sandler's production company Happy Madison and Andrew Gunn's company Gunn Films produced the film for Walt Disney Pictures.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman who was promised by his father, Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce), to be the manager of the family hotel. A mysophobic named Barry Nottingham agreed to keep that promise when the Bronson family sold their hotel to him—then built a new hotel instead. When the story begins, an adult Skeeter is the new hotel's handyman while management is held by Kendall (Guy Pearce). Barry's new hotel, the Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel, is a hit, but he's got plans to build an even more elaborate hotel, one designed around a theme that he's keeping secret.
Skeeter's sister and principal of Webster Elementary School, Wendy (Courteney Cox), asks Skeeter to watch her kids, Bobbi (Laura Ann Kesling) and Patrick (Jonathan Morgan Heit), while she goes out of town on a job interview since her school is scheduled to be demolished. Skeeter does not know his niece and nephew very well, but agrees to watch them. Helping him out during the day is Wendy's friend, Jill Hastings (Keri Russell), an elementary teacher who works at the same school as Wendy. That night, putting Bobbi and Patrick to bed, Skeeter gives them a story, one obviously inspired by his own life as an "underappreciated" handyman: a downtrodden squire "Sir Fixalot" rivals the pompous "Sir Buttkiss" in competition for a new job. The kids add their own details such as the king giving Sir Fixalot a chance to prove himself, a mermaid based on Jill, and a downpour of gumballs when Fixalot prevails.
I was kneeling by the bed and praying
She said, "come love and get undressed"
I sad I'm praying for guidance
She said, "Pray for stripping, I'll do the rest"
So I told her a bedtime story
About the first time I got laid:
As I ran down the stairs, she cried after me:
"You bleeder, you ain't paid!"
As a young man I couldn't get many girls
Because of the size of my wood
I had to keep my shirt on
And give them as much as I could!
So I told her a bedtime story
Of my non-religious rod
And how I was an unbeliever
She said, "you don't believe in . . . ohh god!
So I'll tell you a bedtime story
One night I was asleep
And the girl said, "get up quickly,
I can hear the stairs creek"
She said "get out, it's my husband
And I was half way out the door
When I realised it couldn't be