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Adam Sandler is agreeably successful in his first kid-friendly movie.
Sandler is playing his usual underachiever, though a tad less angry and a bit more wistful than his raunchier characters. His dad (Jonathan Pryce in an scene-setting cameo) once ran a motel in Hollywood. Alas, he was forced to sell to a germaphobic hotelier (Richard Griffiths). His son now works as a handyman at the high-rise luxury hotel that occupies the spot. When his sister (Courteney Cox) loses her job as a school principal, she pages her brother to share baby-sitting chores with a friend (Keri Russell) while she goes on a job interview out of state. Having been strangely estranged from his niece and nephew (Laura Ann Kesling and Jonathan Morgan Heit), his only child-minding skill resides in an ability to spin bedtime stories....read more at HollywoodReporter.com
