Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.

                                         Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.

First things first, Adam Sandler is a genius and everything he makes is 

solid gold, (He should have won an Oscar for uncut Gems but that is for 

another post.) This movie is one of the best adult animated movies of all 

time, the jokes are gold, the story is amazing and the voice acting is 

some of the best I have ever seen or heard. After reading this if your not 

a fan of Adam Sandler I don't know what your doing with your life. So, 

with that lets get to the story shall we:

In the small fictional town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, Davey Stone 

is a 33-year-old Jewish alcoholic troublemaker with a long criminal 

record whose antics have long earned him the community's animosity. 

Davey is arrested for refusing to pay his bill at Mr. Chang's Chinese 

restaurant, attempting to evade arrest ("Davey's Song"), stealing 

a snowmobile, and destroying festive ice sculptures in the process. At 

Davey's trial, Whitey Duvall, a 70-year-old volunteer referee from 

Davey's former basketball league, intervenes. At Whitey's suggestion, 

the judge sentences Davey to community service as a referee-in-training 

for Whitey's Youth Basketball League. Under the terms of the community 

service, if Davey commits a crime before his sentence is completed, he 

will serve 10 years in prison.

The next day, Davey's first game ends in disaster. After Davey causes 

disruptions and torments an obese player for his gynecomastia, Whitey 

suffers a grand mal seizure, and the game is abruptly halted, Davey 

forfeiting it to the opposing team for the sole purpose of making said 

obese player cry. Attempting to calm Davey down, Whitey takes him to 

the mall, where they meet Davey's childhood friend Jennifer Friedman 

and her son Benjamin: Jennifer is now a divorced single mother having 

moved back to her hometown and running a Dunkin' Donuts coffee shop 

in the mall after her former husband had cheated on her with another 

woman from online dating site. Whitey reminds Davey that he lost his 

chance with Jennifer 20 years earlier, but Davey secretly still has 

feelings for her.

As time progresses, Davey and Whitey's relationship becomes more 

strained even after Whitey threatens Davey that he will notify the judge 

when Davey shoplifts a box of assorted chocolates from See's Candies; 

despite letting him off the hook, Whitey keeps to his word and vows to 

tell the judge if Davey commits another similar crime. Whitey's various 

attempts to encourage Davey are met with humiliation and assault—

including Davey knocking Whitey into a porta-potty then spraying him 

with a hose when he climbs out, causing him to be frozen in defecation 

for several hours before a group of grazing deer licks him out. Later, 

Davey bonds with Benjamin while playing basketball at the community 

center with two other men; but then the game stops when Davey lets 

Benjamin cuss at the guys who had lost to them, leading Jennifer to 

reprimand Benjamin for swearing and scolds Davey for his actions telling 

him that she doesn't need her son ending up like him. When Davey gets 

home ("Long Ago") his trailer is being burned down by one of the men 

who lost the basketball match to him and was forced to chew on a jock 

strap. Davey runs into the burning trailer to rescue a Hanukkah card 

from his late parents, then watches the trailer burn down. Whitey opens 

his home to Davey, who reluctantly accepts; also living there is 

Whitey's diabetic fraternal twin sister Eleanore. The Duvall household 

has many complex rules, to which Whitey refers as technical 

fouls ("Technical Foul"). Davey seemingly overcomes them and starts to 

turn his life around.

But Davey's progress in reforming stops short when Whitey recalls what 

happened two decades ago: En route to one of Davey's basketball 

games, his parents were killed in a car accident when a truck skidded 

on black ice and swerved into them, and Davey learned of their deaths 

when the police showed up at the end of his game to inform him of the 

tragedy. Devastated by the loss of his loving parents and leaping from 

foster home to foster home, Davey spent the next 20 years numbing his 

pain with alcohol and petty crime and a result he ostracized himself 

away from Jennifer and his other friends. Uncomfortable with this 

reminder of his tragic, painful childhood, Davey loses his temper and 

insults both Whitey and Eleanore which results in Whitey kicking Davey 

out of his home, much to his relief.

Davey spends the rest of the day binge drinking, and that night he 

breaks into the closed mall. In his drunken stupor, he imagines the logos 

of various stores coming to life and confronting him about his inability to 

grieve for his parents, which they identify as the source of his alcoholism 

("Intervention Song"). He finally opens his parents' Hanukkah card, 

which contains a heartfelt message praising him for being a good son, 

and two photos: one of a young Davey and Jennifer at one of their 

basketball games, and one with his late parents. Davey finally cries and 

comes to terms with his loss. Just then the police arrive to arrest him, 

but he escapes and boards a bus to New York City. En route, the bus is 

forced to stop when a single thumbtack in the road punctures all eight 

rear tires. Reminded of the Miracle of Hanukkah, Davey walks off the 

bus, intending to find Whitey and make amends with him.

Davey finds Whitey at the All-Star Banquet, an annual town celebration 

in which one member of the community is recognized for positive 

contributions to Dukesberry with the "Dukesberry All-Star Patch" which 

Whitey has wanted for 35 years. When Whitey is passed over for 

seemingly the final time, he decides to move to Florida and live the rest 

of his life in anonymity, feeling like he's no longer wanted. Risking 

arrest, Davey enters the hall and sings Whitey's many selfless 

contributions to Dukesberry throughout his life, causing the townspeople 

to realize the error of their ways ("Bum Biddy"). Davey leads them to 

Whitey, who has gone to the mall with Eleanore to "speak to it" one 

more time. The townspeople thank Whitey for his service over the years 

and the Mayor officially grants him the Patch Award. All 34 previous 

recipients of the awards give theirs to Whitey. Davey and Jennifer 

reconcile and Whitey goes into a seizure, which he calls "the happiest 

seizure of my life!"

See did I tell you it was a great story? Adam Sandler is one of the 

greatest writers, creators and actors in Hollywood and I think this movie 

proves that.