Don't let the fancy clothes fool you.
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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“Is Adam Sandler the best thing in Mr. Deeds?”
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“Is Mr. Deeds too gentle for its own good?”
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- Kamuraion TMDB · Aug 20206/10
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, behind all the Sandler style humor, but that humor does make it fun, I just wish there was an adjustable setting sometimes. Ultimately anything that isn't funny or charming in this is brief enough that you can overlook it pretty easily.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Andre Gonzaleson TMDB · Jul 202310/10
I love Adam Sandler movies. This one is another favorite. A hick guy finds out he just inherited millions. Very funny movie, sneaky sneaky sir! Never underestimate the sneakiness.
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Cast
- Adam SandlerLongfellow Deeds
- Winona RyderBabe Bennett
- John TurturroEmilio Lopez
- Allen CovertMarty
- Peter GallagherChuck Cedar
- Jared HarrisMac McGrath
- Erick AvariCecil Anderson
- Peter DanteMurph
- Conchata FerrellJan
- Harve PresnellPreston Blake
Crew
- Steven BrillDirector
- Tim HerlihyScreenplay
- Peter Lyons CollisterDirector of Photography
- Teddy CastellucciOriginal Music Composer
- Jeff GoursonEditor
- Jack GiarraputoProducer
- Sidney GanisProducer
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