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  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption -- spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. (Columbia Pictures...

Directed By: Seth Kearsley

Written By: Brooks Arthur, Allen Covert, Brad Isaacs, Adam Sandler

  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 16 m

Eight Crazy Nights

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
23
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 61 User Ratings
3.7
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Summary Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption -- spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. (Columbia Pictures...

Directed By: Seth Kearsley

Written By: Brooks Arthur, Allen Covert, Brad Isaacs, Adam Sandler

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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15% Mixed
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74% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
23
11% Positive
3 Reviews
15% Mixed
4 Reviews
74% Negative
20 Reviews

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75
What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

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3.7
23% Positive
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16% Mixed
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 61 User Ratings
3.7
23% Positive
14 Ratings
16% Mixed
10 Ratings
61% Negative
37 Ratings

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TheQuietGamer
Dec 20, 2012
An excellent movie to watch during the holidays. The humor is grosser than most other Sandler movies, and it's actually part musical. If your a Sandler fan you'll love it, haters gonna hate.
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JesseDillinger
Apr 25, 2023
This movie's dumb af but it's fine. The first song, Davey's Song, is actually very catchy. Plus I like the scene of him in the mall talking to the mascots. Good scene.
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38
Both syrupy and scatological, this is a typical family-dividing Sandler comedy: Parents will hate it but the kids will delight in its rudeness.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
38
To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
25
I'd prefer to think of Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love," the one good movie of the three he did this year.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
10
A holiday film for the whole family, provided the whole family is obsessed with human waste.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
0
An appallingly tedious Hanukkah comedy that must have bubbled up from the Porta Potti of his subconscious.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
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gzayas91
Aug 1, 2018
What a waste of good animation with this garbage, this is worst Sandler ever. I'm not a huge of Adam Sandler, but there are better Sandler movies than this. Humor is dumb and the main character is too unlikable.
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3
DeanFalcon
Feb 3, 2018
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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TheLonelyCritic
Oct 16, 2016
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Jacob
Dec 17, 2014
I’ve wanted a Channukah movie for years but not like this. 8 Crazy Nights isn’t just a terrible Channukah movie, or a bad film, but one of the most offensive cartoons I’ve ever seen. Not just because of its stereotyping but because of the auteurism of Adam Sandler. The same cliché story about **** finding love, the offensive humor full of the lowest form of humor poop and fart jokes, and **** voices all combine to create a cartoon that is both unpleasant to watch and just plain torture making 1 hour and ½ feel like an eternity. The biggest mitzvah you can do yourself is not watch this movie if you see it playing around Channukah. Listen to the Channukah Song by Adam Sandler, spend time with friends and family, or anything beside watching this turd of a movie. My Channukah present to all of you is that I sat through this movie so you don’t have to. Take my word it ****. Leave it leave. If you thought you hated Adam Sandler’s humor before…..Nonetheless, have a happy Channuakah.
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Gharren
Dec 10, 2013
I think any random 12 year old kid could write a better script. It fails horribly at both the story and the character design, and the jokes are pretty much the unfunniest and most awful ones I've ever heard in any movie. I give 2 mercy points for the decent animation.
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions, Meatball Animation
Release Date Nov 27, 2002
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline It's naughty. It's nice. It's animated.
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/eight-crazy-nights.6068/
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 3 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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