Mr. Deeds
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| Directed by | Steven Brill |
| Produced by | Adam Sandler, Joseph M. Caracciolo |
| Written by | Tim Herlihy |
| Starring | Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro |
| Music by | Teddy Castellucci |
| Cinematography | Peter Lyons Collister |
| Editing by | Jeff Gourson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 28, 2002 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50,000,000 (estimated) |
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 romantic comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, has small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton and has a brief, uncredited appearance by Rob Schneider.
Both Sandler and Ryder were nominated for Golden Raspberry Awards for their work in the movie (Worst Actor and Worst Actress, respectively), and the film itself was up for the Worst Remake or Sequel prize.
Tagline: Don't let the fancy clothes fool you.
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[edit] Plot summary
Preston Blake started out in his career hoping to be a radio disc jockey as a young man, slowly working his way up through the ranks to found Blake Media, a corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations and with tens of thousands of employees. After Blake freezes to death at the summit of Mount Everest with a triumphant smile on his face, a search for his heir begins. When it is found that he has a living nephew named Longfellow Deeds (Sandler, first time since Airheads he didn't play a character in a movie who's name doesn't end with either a Y or an IE) who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire (the actual filmed location was in New Milford, Connecticut). Deeds is contacted and brought to New York City by oily attorney Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher).
Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company to Cedar and return home $40 billion richer, but he must remain in New York for a few days as all the legal details are worked out.
The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), who works for a tabloid show called Inside Access, has a friend pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds. Deeds "rescues" her and she continues to go out with him under the guise of Pam Dawson, a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa (a town she made up on the spot when asked where she was from which later turns out to be real). Though Babe/Pam initially hopes to just get a good story on the new heir, she eventually falls for the unfailingly kind-hearted Deeds and decides to tell him that she's not who she says she is, but Inside Access reveals it to Deeds first. Heartbroken, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls after giving all the money he inherits to the United Negro College Fund, a move which could cost all his employees their jobs.
In an accionists meeting, Cedar has everyone convinced to sell the company, until Deeds (who has bought a single share) arrives and manages to convince everyone to not sell. But Cedar has control of a majority of the shares and the sale is approved. Babe arrives then, and reveals that Blake's butler, Emilio (John Turturro), is Preston Blake's illegitimate son and true heir, as his mother, then Preston's housekeeper, had a one-night stand with him, presumably resulting in their son's birth. This makes sense, as Emilio mentions that his mother passed away while giving birth, and Preston never mentioned about his real father during the forty years he lived there.
As Emilio is the true heir, Deeds' sale of his shares to Cedar is not legal. Emilio inmediately takes control and fires Cedar, among others. Babe reveals herself to Deeds and apologizes for tricking him, and they reconcilie. As they're leaving, Emilio gives Deeds a billion dollars, some of which Deeds spends on buying his friends a few dozen Corvette, and he returns to Mandrake Falls with Babe, where he learns that Hallmark Cards has bought one of his cards, the one he wrote for Babe.
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[edit] References to literature
Throughout the movie, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), a reporter concealing her identity as Pam Dawson from the small town of Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa, borrows descriptions and characters from the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. At one point she claims to have fallen down "Boo Radley's tree" and broken her hand when she was a child. Arthur "Boo" Radley is a character in To Kill a Mockingbird. Later in the movie, while entering an apartment that is not really hers, she refers to a lady she really doesn't know as "Mrs. Finch, Atticus", in order to convince Deeds that she lives there. Atticus Finch is also a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
[edit] References to other Sandler movies
- Nazo from Big Daddy appears twice in the movie. Once catching a cat in his delivery bike & then exclaiming, "Holy shit", he also appears in the end reciting Deeds' Hallmark Card & then being bitten by the cat who he rescued earlier in the movie.
[edit] Box office
- Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 126,293,452
- Other International Takings: $44,976,083
- Gross Worldwide Takings: $171,269,535
