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Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 animated musical comedy movie by Adam Sandler about the magic of the holidays.

Characters

Primary Characters

Davey Stone (Adam Sandler) - Jewish man who used to be friendly, but became a grouch and a loner when his parents died in a car accident. The story is centered on Davey's life.

Whitey Duvall (Adam Sandler) - Basketball referee who is illiterate, optimistic, Christian, 4'3", and has little hair on his head, but lots in other places. One of his feet is much smaller than the other. Has a very high-pitched voice and hopes to win the "Dukesberry All-Star Patch" ("the Patch"), an honor awarded anually by direct popular vote (see election). Befriends Davey and reveals his good side.

Jennifer Friedman - Former girlfriend and teammate of Davey and mother of Benjamin Friedman. She is Jewish. At the end of the movie, she gets together with Davey again.

Secondary Characters

Eleanore Duvall - Fraternal twin sister of Whitey. She has diabetes. She also wears many wigs. She looks like an "owl" without her wig. They live together and take in Davey when his trailer burns down.

Benjamin Friedman - Son of Jennifer and youth basketball player. He is Jewish. He is responsible for Davey meeting Jennifer at the basketball court and ice rink.

Other characters are mentioned in the plot, but are not above because they do not show up repeatedly.

Plot

Set in the fictional town of Dukesberry, the movie focuses on Davey Stone, a drunk with a long criminal record. Arrested in the beginning of the movie for trying to leave a Chinese restaurant without paying the bill, the seventy year old referee from a basketball league he had used to play in named Whitey Duvall, comes forward at his trial. The judge, at Whitey's suggestion, sentences Stone to be a referee-in-training for the Youth Basketball League under Whitey.

Davey and Whitey do not get along well; at one point Davey knocks Whitey into a port-a-pot, which promptly falls over and as Whitey spills out with the pot's foul contents, Davey sprays him with hose water, freezing and trapping Whitey inside a frozen block of urine and feces. "Smell ya later, poopsicle." is all Davey has to say about it. Some deer rescue Whitey later by licking the ice off.

The next day, Davey is to referee his first game. Soon after the game starts, Whitey suggests that he should call a foul when a morbidly obese player is knocked down. Davey calls a foul "on this kid for eating everything in sight." When people in the stands begin to throw things at Davey, scratching Whitey's floor, Whitey goes into a seizure (he does this often throughout the movie). Davey ends the game because "no one wants to see an old man die," declaring "Fatty's team" the losing team "because I wanna see him cry again." which he does.

The next scene takes place in the mall. At the mall, Whitey's favorite place to be, the audience is first introduced to Jennifer Friedman, Davey's childhood girlfriend who, according to Whitey, has recently been left by her husband and has returned to Dukesberry to raise her son, Benjamin. Davey comments about Jennifer's good looks, but Whitey reminds him that Davey lost his chance with Jennifer 20 years ago.

In a later scene, when Whitey has taken Davey to the basketball court for "a refresher course on b-ball rules and regulations," Davey comments that he could win against two men playing basketball on the court even with Whitey as his partner. Overhearing this comment, one of the men challenges them to a game. Davey and Whitey and(after Whitey is knocked out) Benjamin win.

Driving home, Whitey and Davey reach Davey's trailer just in time to see the man who had challenged them to a game burning it. Davey runs into the burning trailer and rescues a letter that says "To our son Davey". This letter becomes important later on. Whitey offers to let Davey stay with him and his fraternal twin sister Eleanore.

Davey at first complains about the highly detailed house rules (referred to as technical fouls, Whitey being a referee), but over time adjusts to living in the Duvalls' home and appears to turn his life around. Then, on the day of the "All-Star Banquet," a ceremony at which the Patch, among other honors is given, Davey and the Duvalls are at an ice rink. After some conversation, Whitey brings up the story of Davey having been the star of "the JCC Miracle Game" during Hanukkah when he was 12 years old. On that night, Davey's team, normally losing every game, had narrowly beaten the other team in a miraculous comeback "as a Hanukkah present" to their parents. However, after the game, Davey had received the news that his parents had been hit by a truck that had run into a patch of black ice while they were going to the game. All that was shown in the movie to have been recovered from the car was a Hanukkah card to Davey. After that traumatic experience, Davey went into decline. Davey, in a rage, tells Whitey that no one in the town even knows he exists, steals Eleanore's wig, and walks away.

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