Bedtime Stories
The Adam Sandler who shows up in Bedtime Stories is that most unnecessary of movie-star guises: the benign family-comedy guy. Sandler plays a lowly Los Angeles handyman recruited by his sister (Courteney Cox) to baby-sit her two children. He entertains them with made-up bedtime stories, but once events he describes start happening in real life, he realizes that the kids’ narrative input has some sort of magical effect. The twitchy anxiety that once powered Sandler’s persona has given way to doughy anonymity; the only potential offense here is the Rob Schneider cameo.
