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| Adam Sandler | ... | ||
| Winona Ryder | ... | ||
| John Turturro | ... | ||
| Allen Covert | ... |
Marty
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| Peter Gallagher | ... | ||
| Jared Harris | ... | ||
| Erick Avari | ... | ||
| Peter Dante | ... | ||
| Conchata Ferrell | ... | ||
| Harve Presnell | ... | ||
| Steve Buscemi | ... | ||
| Blake Clark | ... |
Buddy Ward, Kevin's Father
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| John McEnroe | ... | ||
| J.B. Smoove | ... | ||
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Tom McNulty | ... |
Red Parka Man
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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. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him. Written by Sujit R. Varma
I thought Mr. Deeds was absolutely hilarious, when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite movies. Now that I'm older, and have a lot more experience with comedies, I have to admit that it's not quite as wonderful as I once thought it was. It's so-by- numbers and unimaginative, that I can't imagine much passion or effort was put into making it, at all.
There are a few laughs to be had, but no more than any other typical Sandler movie. The story is shallow and the characters are so one-dimensional, that it's hard to really have much of an interest in what's going on. Somehow, it seems like not enough happens to even account for the relatively short running-time. I've simply grown-up, and besides how pretty Winona Ryder is, nothing about Mr. Deeds is as good as I remember.