Eight Crazy Nights

Eight Crazy Nights

Adam Sandler fans will find the animated movie 8 Crazy Nights to be another flowering of Sandler's absurdist goofiness. People who find Sandler completely annoying will be triply annoyed by 8 Crazy Nights, because Sandler does the voices for three different characters: Davey Stone, a boozing, belching, self-loathing loser who hates the holidays; Whitey, a tiny old man who tries to rehabilitate Davey; and Eleanor, Whitey's neurotic twin sister, who seems not to have left her house in years. Fans will find the slapdash musical numbers and scatological humor hilarious; foes will find them tiresome and banal. But even Sandler's advocates won't care about the by-the-numbers plot of holiday redemption; you see, Davey's parents died on the first night of Hanukkah, and he just needs to cry about it. Sandler's best when he's walking that line between stupid and smart-ass. When he gets sentimental, it's trouble. --Bret Fetzer

Production: Columbia Tristar Pictures
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
23
Rotten Tomatoes:
12%
PG-13
Year:
2002
76
$23,341,502
Website
10,536 Views
It's naughty. It's nice. It's animated.
The Ultimate Battle Between Naughty And Nice.

Judge:
Stone, what the heck are we going to do with you? In the past twenty years, I’ve sent you to reform school, the drunk tank, the local psychiatric ward. Not one of those places has made you change an ounce for the better. ‘Cause you used to be a good kid, playing ball for the Jewish Community Center, with the best jump shot this town’s ever seen.

Davey:
[opens the flask] Your honor, I still got a pretty good jump shot. Let me show you. [takes a drink of whiskey, and then jumps very quickly, and not very far] I’d hit a three-pointer, except I’d have to drop my pants and pop a thumb up my boo-boo.

Judge:
Stone, you leave me no choice. I’m gonna really have to crack down hard this time.

Whitey:
[chiming in, with his fore head seen a little in the seating area] Your honor, if it pleases the court, I’d like to interject for a moment.

Mr. Chang:
What the hell was that? Did anybody else hear a parakeet, or am I going crazy?

Whitey:
[shows himself by stepping out into the aisle with his Cain] No, Mr. Chang. It’s me, Whitey Duvall. And a happy first night of Chanukah to you.

Mr. Chang:
I’m not Jewish.

Whitey:
Neither am I, but that don’t stop me from enjoying a holiday.

Judge:
Whitey, we went over this two months ago. It’s your last year of reffing the youth league basketball. You’re turning 70 years old and our insurance company says they won’t cover you anymore.

Whitey:
Ha, ha. No, no, no. My interjection pertains to the case currently under adjudication. You see, I knew this young man years ago when his moral fiber was still intact.

Judge:
Whitey, what are you getting at?

Whitey:
Why not sentence him to be a referee-in-training for the youth league basketball? I’ve seen some pretty rowdy kids turn into perfect gentlemen after spending time on my court.

Judge:
If that happened with Stone, it would be a miracle.

Whitey:
Well, it is the holidays and those kinda things have been known to happen this time of year.

Judge:
Whitey, if you want to work with this punk, then God bless you. But Mr. Stone, what Whitey says goes. And if I hear that you break one law, I will send you to the state penitentiary for no less than 10 years.

Davey:
Huh?

Judge:
Happy holidays. [pounds his gavel, adjourning the trial]

Davey:
Oh, god.

Davey:
[gets annoyed] Hey, I'm out of here. I don't need this symphony crap.

Whitey:
Maybe it's time you stop running from your emotions.

Davey:
[enraged] I'm not. I'm running from two crybabies who won't shut up about something that isn't any of their business.

Eleanore:
You know, I read recently in Reader's Digest that people who let themselves cry when they're hurting are often stronger than the people who try to hold all their pain inside.

Davey:
[turns red with anger] Did you read anything about a deformed referee who spends 35 years trying to win some STUPID PATCH... [angrily points to Whitey] so he can pretend people actually like him?!

Eleanor:
Which month was that in?

Whitey:
[seriously] Take that back.

Davey:
[furiously grabs Whitey by the jacket] Listen, if they have an award for the freakiest looking fraternal twins... who nobody even gives a crap about, you two are definitely winning. But that patch thing ain't ever gonna happen for you... because the truth is, [screaming at Whitey angrily] nobody in this town even knows you EXIST!

Jennifer and Benjamin look up, concerned

Eleanor:
[angrily calls Davey an animal] You're an animal.

Davey:
[angrily steals the wig] And You're bald!

Eleanor:
Not again! [faints]

Whitey:
You're not welcome in my house.

Davey:
[pissed off] Good! Your house sucks!

Jennifer:
Do you have to be nasty to everyone who tries to help you?

Davey:
[angrily throws the wig at Jennifer] That's my problem!

[The wig lands on Mr. Chang's head]

Mr. Chang:
He just a no-goodnik, and *I* am the real Kristi Yamaguchi.


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