Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights [Blu-ray]

Director: Seth Kearsley Seth Kearsley

Overview

Come celebrate the joy and togetherness of the Hanukkah season with Adam Sandler -- yeah, that Adam Sandler -- in this raucous animated comedy written and produced in collaboration with the noted funnyman. Davey Stone (voice of Adam Sandler) is a twentysomething man with a short temper and a reputation for causing trouble who lives in the small New England town of Dukesberry. Davey has a particularly bad attitude about the holiday season, and on the first night of Hanukkah, he goes on a tear that lands him in front of a judge (voice of Norm Crosby). The judge, who has dealt with Davey before, is prepared to send him to prison, but Whitey (also voiced by Sandler), an eccentric but kindly old man, persuades the judge to give him a chance to turn Davey into a more responsible citizen. Davey doesn't think much of Whitey's charitable nature, but when his trailer home burns down, he's forced to move in with Whitey and his perpetually nervous sister, Eleanore (also voiced by Sandler...spotting a trend here?). Between Whitey and Eleanore's nonstop kvetching and the reappearance of his old girlfriend Jennifer (voice of Jackie Titone), Davey is being driven to distraction by the Hanukkah season, but in time Whitey learns the truth about why Davey has such a problem with the Festival of Lights. Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights also includes eight new songs co-written by Sandler; he duets with bluegrass star Alison Krauss on "Long Ago."

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2017
UPC:	0043396495432
Original Release:	2002
Source:	Sony Mod
Language:	English
Time:	1:16:00
Sales rank:	22,140

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Adam Sandler	Davey,Jennifer
Justin Stout	Benjamin
Blake Clarke	Radio Shack Walkie-Talkie
Tom Kenney	Sharper Image Chair
James Barbour	Mayor
Allen Covert	Old Lady
J.D. Donaruma	Cop #3
Kelly Dugan	Fat Kid
Archie Hahn	TV Announcer
Ali Hoffman	Young Jennifer,Donald Hardy,Young Jennifer
Jason Housman	Benjamin
Lainie Kazan	Old Woman
Tyra Banks	Victoria's Secret Gown
Carl Weathers	GNC Guy
Bobby Edner	Voices
Dylan Sprouse	K-B Toys Soldier,K-B Toys Soldier
Travis Tedford	Voices
Brooks Arthur	Rabbi Fliegel
Bernadette Barlow	Singer
Peter Dante	Foot Locker Guy
Ellen Albertini Dow	See's Candies Box
Michael Geiger	Singer
Jenn Gross	Singer
Archie Hahn III	TV Announcer
Betsy Hammer	Phone Sex Lady
Linda Harmon	Singer
Jon Joyce	Singer
Tom Kenny	Sharper Image Chair
Rick Logan	Singer
Susan Stevens Logan	Singer
Tom McNulty	Singer
Jennifer Perkins	Singer
Denise Pleune	Concession Stand Worker
Sally Stevens	Singer
Teddy Castellucci	Composer
Marc Ellis	Composer,Composer

Technical Credits

Adam Sandler

Allen Covert

Brad Isaacs

Brooks Arthur

Seth Kearsley	Director
Adam Sandler	Producer,Screenwriter
Allen Covert	Producer,Screenwriter
Jack Giarraputo	Producer
Kara Vallow	Producer
Ken Tsumura	Executive Producer
Ken Taumura	Executive Producer
Brad Isaacs	Screenwriter
Brooks Arthur	Screenwriter
Gabe Veltri	Sound/Sound Designer
Carla Murray	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

If you're looking for the arrival of the first classic Hanukkah movie -- well, Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights isn't it. But that's not because it isn't sort of funny and sort of sweet, in between the more frequent times when it's sort of gross. It's because the movie is only about Hanukkah in a limited sense, enough to piggyback it onto Sandler's perennial hit "The Hanukkah Song," whose lyrics get a third incarnation here for the closing credits. Eight Crazy Nights instead follows a looser "redemption during the holidays" theme, but don't let that or the fact that it's animated suggest that it's for kids -- while its PG-13 rating is shy of the R given to the South Park movie, it's in that same category. The pre-repentant Davey Stone boozes, pretends to dry-hump a car, and knocks an outhouse down the hill, leaving its occupant covered in feces. If this all sounds pretty puerile, it is, but there's still a good heart and a couple laughs at the center of Eight Crazy Nights. Sandler's old man impression isn't that much different from how he'd sound if castrated, but he does a wickedly nasally take on the old man's sister, matching the character design humorously -- and disguising his own voice enough to create doubt that it's him. Another South Park similarity is that Sandler gets good mileage from the song he co-wrote with Allen Covert, including Whitey's primer on rules ("Technical Foul"), a musical intervention staged by mall mascots, and "Bum Biddy," an opera spoof performed at an awards banquet. The critics who trashed Eight Crazy Nights undoubtedly made good points, but it doesn't take a Sandler fan to find some fun in it.