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Movie Review: Bedtime Stories

Movie Review: Bedtime Stories

While Adam Shankman's comedy clearly skews to a younger demo, there's enough sophomoric humor here to reassure the Adam Sandler faithful.
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'Yes Man' The weekend box office got iced by terrible weather, and the result was anything but a merry start for Jim Carrey laffer �Yes Man� and Will Smith drama �Seven Pounds.�

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Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds Pic is an endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head.

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Valkyrie

Valkyrie After a long takeoff, "Valkyrie" finally takes flight as a thriller in its second half but never soars very high.

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Weekend Estimate
December 19, 2008 - December 21, 2008 (*millions)
  FILM GROSS
1 Yes Man $18,160,000
2 Seven Pounds $16,000,000
3 Tale Of Despereaux, The $10,507,040
4 Day The Earth Stood Still, The $10,150,000
5 Four Christmases $7,745,000
6 Twilight $5,227,000
7 Bolt $4,256,000
8 Slumdog Millionaire $3,150,000
9 Australia $2,325,000
10 Quantum Of Solace $2,150,000
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TV Ratings
Monday, December 15, 2008 (*millions)
Top Show Total
Two and a Half Men (CBS) 17.9 mil
Top Shows A18-49
Two and a Half Men (CBS) 5.6/13
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 4.6/11
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 4.2/11
Networks
CBS 4.3/11
NBC 2.6/7
FOX 2.1/5
ABC 1.5/4
from Nielsen Media Research - preliminary results

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