Adam Sandler - Eight Mad Nights - The animated film
Eight nights of madness (Noto anche come Eight Mad Nights by Adam Sandler ) is a 2002 American animated film for adults, in the musical comedy genre, directed by Seth Kearsley and produced, co-written and starring the American comedian Adam Sandler, in the original dub. The 76-minute animated film is on the Christmas theme, but not a Christian celebration of Christmas, but as a Jewish celebration during the season of Hanukkah, the festival of lights.
The story of Adam Sandler - Eight crazy nights
In the fictional small town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, Davey Stone is a 33-year-old alcoholic troublemaker with a long, dirty criminal record, whose antics have earned him the distrust of the Jewish community. Davey is arrested for refusing to pay the bill at Mr. Chang's Chinese restaurant, attempting to evade arrest, stealing a snowmobile, and destroying ice sculptures set up for the holidays. At Davey's trial, Whitey Duvall, a 70-year-old former basketball referee who knows Davey intervenes as he referees his games. At Whitey's suggestion, the judge sentences Davey to community service as a training referee for Whitey's Youth Basketball League. Under the terms of community service, if Davey commits a crime before his sentence is completed, he will have to serve 10 years in prison.
The first disastrous arbitrage
The next day, Davey's first refereeing ends in disaster. After Davey causes inconvenience and provokes an obese player, Whitey is hit with a hysterical fit and the game is abruptly stopped. In an attempt to calm Davey, Whitey takes him to the mall, where they meet Davey's childhood friend Jennifer Friedman and her son Benjamin. Whitey reminds Davey that he missed his chance with Jennifer 20 years ago, but Davey is still secretly in love with her.
Whitey hosts Davey at his home
As time goes by, the relationship between Davey and Whitey becomes more strained. Whitey's various attempts to encourage Davey turn into humiliation and aggression. When Davey returns home, his trailer is burned by a man who lost a basketball game with him earlier and was forced to chew on a jockstrap. Davey runs into the burning trailer to rescue a Hanukkah card from his deceased parents, but then watches the trailer burn. Whitey offers his hospitality to Davey, who reluctantly accepts. With Whitey he lives his twin sister Eleanore. The Duvall family has many complex and precise rules, like those of a basketball game. Davey apparently manages to abide by all the rules and begins to change his life.
Davey's past
But Davey's progress comes to a halt when Whitey remembers what happened two decades ago: while on their way to one of Davey's basketball games, his parents were killed in a car accident when a truck slipped on the ice. black and swerved against them, and Davey learned of their deaths when the police showed up at the end of his game to inform him. Devastated by the loss of his parents and the leap from foster family to foster family, Davey spent the next 20 years anesthetizing his pain with alcohol and petty crime. Uncomfortable with this memory of his tragic and painful childhood, Davey loses his temper and insults both Whitey and Eleanore, so Whitey throws him out of the house.
Production
The animated film was made by a collaboration between Anvil Studios, A. Film A / S, Bardel Entertainment, Goldenbell Animation, Marina Motion Animation, Spaff Animation, Tama Production, Time Lapse Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation, YR Studio and Yowza! Animation . It was the only animated film that Adam Sandler worked on, other than Hotel Transylvania in 2012, where he played the part of Dracula, in the original dub.
The judgments of the critics
The film was judged negatively by both film critics and poor box office receipts. The film got an average score of 3,1 / 10 and was called a nauseating concoction filled with banal humor and too dark atmospheres for an animated comedy.
