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This movie is fun and light-hearted and family friendly. It’s not your regular bedtime story movie and I found myself laughing so hard in some parts. My fave character is their pet (which I’m not gonna tell here). I’ll give this movie 7 stars out of 10, because although it’s fun to watch, I think watching it once is enough he he…

The Story:

Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) works as a handyman in Barry Nottingham’s (Richard Griffiths) mega hotel. The hotel used to be Skeeter’s dad’s and it used to be just a small modest hotel, but Barry Nottingham managed to persuade him to sell the hotel to him. He even promised to make Skeeter a manager of his new hotel in the same location. For years and years Skeeter works diligently in the hotel as he waits for the time when he’ll become the manager in the hotel. However, Barry has chosen his daughter’s boyfriend named Kendall (Guy Pearce) to run a new hotel that he’s going to build.

Meanwhile, Barry’s sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) has lost her job, so she has to go on a job interview in another city. So she leaves her kids Patrick (Jonathan Morgan Heit) and Bobbi (Laura Ann Kesling) in the care of Skeeter and Wendy’s friend, Jill (Keri Russell). Skeeter then makes up bedtime stories with the kids every night they are in his care.

The stories the kids make up turn out to be true in real life - well, in a way. So Skeeter tries hard to make the kids create stories in which he becomes the winner, because he knows that in real life it’ll come true, as well. In fact, because of the kids’ stories, Barry Nottingham actually gives Skeeter a chance to compete with Kendall to be a manager of the new hotel he’s going to build. In the contest, the winner is the one who gives the best idea on the hotel’s overall theme.

However, what he doesn’t know is that the location of the hotel is actually the school where Patrick and Bobbi go to. The same school that Jill is working at. So Barry has pulled some strings to make the government official sign some papers that enables him to destroy the school in order to make his mega hotel. Meanwhile, Skeeter finds himself feeling attracted to Jill as time goes by.

Will Skeeter be successful in winning the contest? What will happen to the hotel and the school? Will Skeeter have a relationship with Jill?

Spoiler:

Skeeter won the contest, but he managed to ruin his possible career by ruining Barry’s birthday party. Why? He thought he was going to be on fire (due to the kids’ story), so when Barry was about to blow the many candles on his huge birthday cake, Skeeter put down all the candles with a fire extinguisher. He gets fired right away.

Meanwhile, Jill is angry at Skeeter because she thinks that he knows that the new hotel’s location is the school she works in. The kids are also angry at him because of the same reason. Now Skeeter has to think of something to make it all right again.

So Kendall is in charge of the hotel again and he is about to have it demolished, but Skeeter saves the school on time. First he goes to meet his ex-school friend who works in the government office and they manage to make a deal. The deal is that the school stays as is, but Barry can make his hotel near a beach. Barry agrees to this deal.

Then Skeeter decides to open his own modest hotel and named it after his dad. Jill now accepts him as her boyfriend. Kendall gets fired and he now works as a servant in Skeeter’s hotel. Happy ending.