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Mr. Deeds (2002)

PG-1306/28/2002Comedy, Romance1h 36m

Don't let the fancy clothes fool you.

Overview

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Adam Sandler

    Longfellow Deeds

  2. Cast 1

    Winona Ryder

    Babe Bennett

  3. Cast 1

    John Turturro

    Emilio Lopez

  4. Cast 1

    Allen Covert

    Marty

  5. Cast 1

    Peter Gallagher

    Chuck Cedar

  6. Cast 1

    Erick Avari

    Cecil Anderson

  7. Cast 1

    Jared Harris

    Mac McGrath

  8. Cast 1

    Steve Buscemi

    Crazy Eyes

  9. Cast 1

    Conchata Ferrell

    Jan

Decent watch, could watch again, and can recommend. This has all the hallmarks, and cast, of most typical Happy Madison productions, but with a lot of money involved, both in the characters and the production value. I think this is the movie where John McEnroe started getting involved. The character work in this is either drastically good or drastically bad, and they definitely experimented with some ideas they had in the backlog. The "rags to riches" trope crossed with the "NYC is a cesspool of money corruption" trope is actually inspired. There is a great script in this movie, be...